He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
Parallel translations
- KJV He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
- BSB He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
- NKJV He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken.
- NASB He protects all his bones, Not one of them is broken.
- NLT For the Lord protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken!
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Cross-references · 4
- John 19:36For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
- Ps 91:12They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
- Dan 6:22–24My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
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