In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Parallel translations
- KJV In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
- BSB In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.
- NKJV In You, O Lord, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.
- NASB In You, Lord, I have taken refuge; Let me never be put to shame.
- NLT O Lord, I have come to you for protection; don’t let me be disgraced.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 31:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Ps 25:2–3My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- Ps 22:5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
- 1 Pet 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
- Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- 1 Chr 5:20They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was answered them, because they put their trust in him.
- Rom 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
- 2 Kgs 18:5He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
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