You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
- BSB You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- NKJV You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob.
- NASB ¶You are my King, God; Command victories for Jacob.
- NLT You are my King and my God. You command victories for Israel.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- Ps 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Mark 9:25When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”
- Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
- Mark 1:31He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them.
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Mark 1:41Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”
- Mark 1:25–26Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”
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