You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- BSB You have raised a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee the bow. Selah
- NKJV You have given a banner to those who fear You, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
- NASB You have given a banner to those who fear You, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
- NLT But you have raised a banner for those who fear you— a rallying point in the face of attack. Interlude
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 20:5We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
- Exod 17:15Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
- Isa 11:12He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Isa 5:26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
- Isa 13:2Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
- Song 2:4He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
- Isa 59:14–15Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
- Jer 5:1–3“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
- Isa 49:22Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
- Ps 45:4In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
- Ps 12:1–2For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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