Psalms 27:13

David affirms his confidence that he will see God's goodness in the land of the living. It declares faith's firm hope amid trouble.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Cor 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Ps 142:5I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
• 2 Cor 4:8–14We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Ps 56:3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
• Ps 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
• Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
• Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
• Ps 116:9–11I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
• Job 28:13Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
• Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
• Ezek 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
• Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
• Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
• Isa 38:11I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
• Ps 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

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