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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Quick answer
David exhorts all who hope in the Lord to be strong and take courage. It closes the psalm with a charge to hopeful courage.
Overview
The final word turns lament into encouragement, calling the faithful to strengthen their hearts in hope. Courage is grounded in God's faithfulness, not favorable circumstances. This summons to hope in the Lord steadies all who wait on Him, ultimately in the hope of Christ.
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Cross-references · 11
- 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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