Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
- BSB The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to surrender him to the will of his foes.
- ESV the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
- NKJV The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
- NASB The Lord will protect him and keep him alive, And he will be called blessed upon the earth; And do not turn him over to the desire of his enemies.
- NLT The Lord protects them and keeps them alive. He gives them prosperity in the land and rescues them from their enemies.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 45:4–5“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- Ps 33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
- Ps 37:32–33The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
- Ps 140:8–9Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
- Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
- Ps 128:1–6A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
- Ps 91:3–7For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
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