Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
- BSB Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
- NKJV Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord.
- NASB Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who wait for the Lord.
- NLT So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord!
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- Ps 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Isa 35:3–4Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
- Ps 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
- Heb 12:12–13Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
- Ps 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
- Jas 5:10–11Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
- Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
- Rom 15:12–13Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
- 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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