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The LORD Is My Strength

Psalms 28:8

In 11 translations

BSB
The LORD is the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
KJV
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.their: or, hissaving…: Heb. strength of salvations
WEB
Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
ASV
Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
LSV
YHWH [is] strength to him, || Indeed, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.
YLT
Jehovah [is] strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.
DBY
Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.
DRC27:8
The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
GNV
The Lord is their strength, and he is the strength of the deliuerances of his anointed.
JPS
The LORD is a strength unto them; and He is a stronghold of salvation to His anointed.
LXXE27:8
The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.Gr. defender of the salvation of.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְהוָ֥ה עֹֽז־לָ֑מוֹ וּמָ֘ע֤וֹז יְשׁוּע֖וֹת מְשִׁיח֣וֹ הֽוּא׃
LXX-Br27:8
Κύριος κραταίωμα τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὑπερασπιστὴς τῶν σωτηρίων τοῦ χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐστι.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
  • Psalms 140:7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.
  • Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  • 1 Samuel 16:13So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
  • Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

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  • 27:8 in some Bibles
  • 28:8 in most Bibles

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