My defense is of God, Who saves the upright in heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
- KJV My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
- BSB My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
- NASB My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart.
- NLT God is my shield, saving those whose hearts are true and right.
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Quick answer
David declares that God is his shield, the one who saves the upright in heart. God Himself defends those whose hearts are true toward Him.
Overview
David's confidence rests in God as his protector, the deliverer of those who are sincere before Him. Salvation belongs to the upright not because they are flawless but because their hearts are turned to the Lord. This shield is found supremely in Christ, in whom God preserves and saves all who trust Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Gen 15:1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
- Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Prov 28:18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
- Ps 125:4Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
- Prov 2:21For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
- Prov 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
- Job 8:6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Ps 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 112:2His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Ps 18:1–2For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
- Ps 3:3But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
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