Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- BSB The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
- NKJV O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.
- NASB ¶The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot.
- NLT Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine.
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- Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Ps 142:5I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Lam 3:24“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
- Ps 119:57Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
- Ps 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
- Deut 32:9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- Ps 89:20–37I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
- Ps 116:13I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
- Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Isa 53:12Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and he will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Ps 9:4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
- Ps 21:7–12For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Ps 132:11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
- Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
- Ps 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Ps 125:3For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
- 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
- Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
- Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- Ps 110:1–2A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- Ps 132:17–18There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
- Ps 61:6–7You will prolong the king’s life; his years shall be for generations.
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