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Be My Rock of Refuge

Psalms 71:5

In 11 translations

BSB
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
KJV
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
WEB
For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
ASV
For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth.
LSV
For You [are] my hope, O Lord YHWH, || My trust from my youth.
YLT
For Thou [art] my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.
DBY
For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.
DRC70:5
For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth;
GNV
For thou art mine hope, O Lord God, euen my trust from my youth.
JPS
For Thou art my hope; O Lord GOD, my trust from my youth.
LXXE70:5
For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, thou art my hope from my youth.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה תִקְוָתִ֑י אֲדֹנָ֥י יְ֝הוִ֗ה מִבְטַחִ֥י מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃
LXX-Br70:5
Ὅτι σὺ εἶ ἡ ὑπομονή μου Κύριε, Κύριε ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἐκ νεότητός μου·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
  • Psalms 39:7And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
  • Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
  • Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
  • Jeremiah 17:17Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
  • Psalms 119:166I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.
  • Psalms 22:9–10Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
  • 1 Samuel 17:45–47But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD…
  • Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  • Jeremiah 14:8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
  • 2 Timothy 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • 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 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
  • 1 Samuel 17:33–37But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a…
  • Luke 2:40And the Child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him.

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