No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
- KJV Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
- BSB Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
- ESV Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
- 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.
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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.
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Cross-references · 29
- Lam 3:25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
- Isa 40:31But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
- Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Ps 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
- Ps 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
- Ps 37:34Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
- Ps 40:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 33:20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
- Ps 123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
- Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
- Jer 20:11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
- Ps 69:6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
- Ps 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”
- Ps 31:17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
- Ps 71:13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
- Ps 62:1For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
- Ps 59:2–5Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
- Ps 70:2–3Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
- Ps 6:10May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
- Ps 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
- Ps 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- Ps 7:4–5if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
- Ps 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
- Ps 40:14–15Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
- Gen 49:13“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
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