29 Happy are you, O Israel! (A)Who is like you,
    a people (B)saved by the Lord,
(C)the shield of your help,
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    and you shall tread upon their backs.”

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29 Blessed are you, Israel!(A)
    Who is like you,(B)
    a people saved by the Lord?(C)
He is your shield and helper(D)
    and your glorious sword.
Your enemies will cower before you,
    and you will tread on their heights.(E)

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17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
(A)you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    to all eternity.

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17 But Israel will be saved(A) by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;(B)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,(C)
    to ages everlasting.

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“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (A)the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

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  1. Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord

Surely God is my salvation;(A)
    I will trust(B) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,(C) is my strength(D) and my defense[a];
    he has become my salvation.(E)

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  1. Isaiah 12:2 Or song

O (A)Israel,[a] (B)trust in the Lord!
    He is their (C)help and their shield.
10 O (D)house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and (E)their shield.
11 You (F)who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and their shield.

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  1. Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel

All you Israelites, trust(A) in the Lord
    he is their help and shield.
10 House of Aaron,(B) trust in the Lord
    he is their help and shield.
11 You who fear him,(C) trust in the Lord
    he is their help and shield.

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23 (A)And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name (B)and doing for them[a] great and awesome things by driving out before your people,[b] whom (C)you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you
  2. 2 Samuel 7:23 Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew awesome things for your land, before your people

23 And who is like your people Israel(A)—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name(B) for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders(C) by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed(D) from Egypt?[a]

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 17:21; Hebrew wonders for your land and before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt, from the nations and their gods.

19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
    (A)he makes my feet like the deer's;
    he makes me (B)tread on my (C)high places.

(D)To the choirmaster: with (E)stringed[a] instruments.

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  1. Habakkuk 3:19 Hebrew my stringed

19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;(A)
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.(B)

For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

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Say to God, (A)“How awesome are your deeds!
    So great is your power that your enemies (B)come cringing to you.

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Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!(A)
    So great is your power
    that your enemies cringe(B) before you.

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20 Our soul (A)waits for the Lord;
    he is our (B)help and (C)our shield.

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20 We wait(A) in hope for the Lord;
    he is our help and our shield.

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13 (A)He made him ride on the high places of the land,
    and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with (B)honey out of the rock,
    and (C)oil out of (D)the flinty rock.

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13 He made him ride on the heights(A) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(B)
    and with oil(C) from the flinty crag,

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For (A)what great nation is there that has (B)a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so (C)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

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What other nation is so great(A) as to have their gods near(B) them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws(C) as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

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20 Behold, I received a command to bless:
    (A)he has blessed, and (B)I cannot revoke it.
21 (C)He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob,
    nor has he seen trouble in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
    and the shout of a king is among them.
22 (D)God brings them out of Egypt
    and is for them like (E)the horns of the wild ox.
23 For there is no enchantment against Jacob,
    no (F)divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
    (G)‘What has God wrought!’
24 Behold, a people! (H)As a lioness it rises up
    and as a lion it lifts itself;
(I)it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey
    and drunk the blood of the slain.”

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20 I have received a command to bless;(A)
    he has blessed,(B) and I cannot change it.(C)

21 “No misfortune is seen in Jacob,(D)
    no misery observed[a] in Israel.(E)
The Lord their God is with them;(F)
    the shout of the King(G) is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt;(H)
    they have the strength of a wild ox.(I)
23 There is no divination against[b] Jacob,
    no evil omens(J) against[c] Israel.
It will now be said of Jacob
    and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’
24 The people rise like a lioness;(K)
    they rouse themselves like a lion(L)
that does not rest till it devours its prey
    and drinks the blood(M) of its victims.”

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  1. Numbers 23:21 Or He has not looked on Jacob’s offenses / or on the wrongs found
  2. Numbers 23:23 Or in
  3. Numbers 23:23 Or in

God's Covenant with Abram

15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: (A)“Fear not, Abram, I am (B)your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

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21 And the rest were slain by the sword (A)that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and (B)all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

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21 The rest were killed with the sword(A) coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse,(B) and all the birds(C) gorged themselves on their flesh.

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