For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Parallel translations
- KJV For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
- BSB For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
- NKJV For by You I can run against a troop, By my God I can leap over a wall.
- NASB For by You I can run at a troop of warriors; And by my God I can leap over a wall.
- NLT In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Sam 22:30For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
- Eph 6:10–13Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
- 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
- Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Col 2:15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- Ps 44:6–7For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
- Ps 144:10You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
- Ps 144:1By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:
- 2 Sam 5:19–20David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
- 1 Sam 23:2Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”
- 2 Sam 5:25David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.
- 1 Sam 17:49David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
- 1 Sam 30:8David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
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