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The Godly Are No More

Psalms 12:7

In 11 translations

BSB
You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.
KJV
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.them from: Heb. him, etc: that is, every one of them, etc
WEB
You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.
ASV
Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
LSV
You, O YHWH, preserve them, || You keep us from this generation for all time.
YLT
Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.
DBY
Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
DRC11:8
Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation for ever.
GNV
Thou wilt keepe them, O Lord: thou wilt preserue him from this generation for euer.
JPS12:8
Thou wilt keep them, O LORD; Thou wilt preserve us from this generation for ever.
LXXE11:8
Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

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Original-language editions

WLC12:8
אַתָּֽה־יְהוָ֥ה תִּשְׁמְרֵ֑ם תִּצְּרֶ֓נּוּ ׀ מִן־הַדּ֖וֹר ז֣וּ לְעוֹלָֽם׃KJV:Ps.12.7
LXX-Br11:8
Σὺ Κύριε φυλάξεις ἡμᾶς· καὶ διατηρήσεις ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης, καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
  • Psalms 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
  • Psalms 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
  • 1 Peter 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Psalms 37:40The LORD helps and delivers them; He rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in Him.
  • Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  • Isaiah 27:3I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
  • Deuteronomy 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
  • Psalms 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
  • Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Psalms 16:1Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.
  • Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 12:8 in some Bibles
  • 12:7 in most Bibles

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