Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
Parallel translations
- KJV For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- BSB Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
- ESV Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- NKJV For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
- NASB ¶Yet God is my King from long ago, Who performs acts of salvation in the midst of the earth.
- NLT You, O God, are my king from ages past, bringing salvation to the earth.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Ps 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Exod 15:2–15Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
- Hab 3:12–14You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- 1 Sam 19:5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
- Num 23:21–22He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
- Judg 4:23–24So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.
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