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The LORD Is My Rock

Psalms 18:18

In 11 translations

BSB
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
KJV
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
WEB
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
ASV
They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.
LSV
They go before me in a day of my calamity || And YHWH is for a support to me.
YLT
They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.
DBY
They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.
DRC17:19
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
GNV
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.
JPS18:19
They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.
LXXE17:19
They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.

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Original-language editions

WLC18:19
יְקַדְּמ֥וּנִי בְיוֹם־אֵידִ֑י וַֽיְהִי־יְהוָ֖ה לְמִשְׁעָ֣ן לִֽי׃KJV:Ps.18.18
LXX-Br17:19
Προέφθασάν με ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακώσεώς μου, καὶ ἐγένετο Κύριος ἀντιστήριγμά μου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Obadiah 1:10–14Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots…
  • Psalms 46:11The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
  • Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
  • Psalms 59:16But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
  • Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
  • Psalms 46:1–2God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
  • Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
  • 2 Samuel 22:19They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
  • 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 18:19 in some Bibles
  • 18:18 in most Bibles

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