I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Parallel translations
- KJV I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- BSB I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- NKJV I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
- NASB I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- NLT I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Acts 2:25–28For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
- Ps 73:23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
- Ps 121:5Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
- Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Ps 110:5The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
- Ps 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
- Heb 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
- Ps 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
- Ps 139:18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
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