The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
- KJV The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
- BSB The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- NASB The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time and forever.
- NLT The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.
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Quick answer
Yahweh will keep your going out and coming in, now and forevermore. God's care covers all of life, always.
Overview
The closing promise covers every 'going out' and 'coming in,' all of life's comings and goings, and extends 'forever more.' God's keeping is comprehensive and everlasting. This eternal protection is the believer's inheritance in Christ, who keeps His people to the very end and beyond.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 28:6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
- Prov 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
- Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
- Ps 113:2Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.
- Ezra 8:31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
- Ps 115:18But we will bless Yah, from this time forward and forever more. Praise Yah!
- Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
- Jas 4:13–16Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
- 2 Sam 5:2In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”
- Deut 28:19You will be cursed when you come in, and you will be cursed when you go out.
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