It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Parallel translations
- WEB the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
- BSB It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
- NKJV It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.
- NASB The God who encircles me with strength, And makes my way blameless?
- NLT God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect.
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Quick answer
God arms David with strength and makes his way perfect. It matters because both the power and the path of the faithful come from God.
Overview
David acknowledges that God girds him with strength and makes his way blameless. Every resource for living and for victory is supplied by God himself. This dependence on God for both strength and a straight path points to the life believers receive in Christ, who equips and perfects his people for every good work.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 45:5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
- Ps 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
- 2 Cor 3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
- 2 Sam 22:33God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
- Ps 91:2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
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