Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
- BSB Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
- NKJV Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.
- NASB Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed; Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.
- NLT No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
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Quick answer
None who wait on God will be shamed, but the treacherous will be. God honors patient faith and judges faithless betrayal.
Overview
David broadens his prayer into a confident principle: those who wait for God will not be disgraced, while those who betray without cause will bear shame. Waiting expresses hopeful, patient dependence on the Lord. The verse assures believers that trust in God is never wasted, a truth grounded in the trustworthiness of the God who saves through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 29
- Lam 3:25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
- Isa 40:31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Isa 49:23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- Ps 62:5My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
- Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
- Ps 37:34Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
- Ps 40:1–3I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 33:20Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
- Ps 123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
- Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
- Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
- Ps 69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
- Ps 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 132:18His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
- Ps 31:17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
- Ps 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- Ps 62:1Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
- Ps 59:2–5Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- Ps 70:2–3Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
- Ps 6:10Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
- Ps 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- John 15:25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- Ps 109:3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- Ps 7:4–5If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
- Ps 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- Ps 40:14–15Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
- Gen 49:13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
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