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He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 89:26 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
  • BSB He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
  • NKJV He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
  • NASB “He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
  • NLT And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
  • 2 Sam 22:47Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
  • Ps 95:1Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
  • Ps 62:6–7He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
  • Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress — I will never be greatly shaken.
  • Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
  • Luke 23:46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
  • Ps 18:46Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
  • John 11:41So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
  • John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
  • Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
  • Mark 15:34At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
  • 1 Chr 22:10He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’
  • Matt 26:39He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
  • Isa 50:7–9For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
  • Heb 1:5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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