Deuteronomy 33:29
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29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
but you shall tread on their backs.”(A)
Isaiah 45:17
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17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be put to shame or confounded
ever again.(A)
Isaiah 12:2
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2 Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and will not be afraid,
for the Lord[a] is my strength and my might;
he has become my salvation.”(A)
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- 12.2 Q ms Heb mss Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT for Yah, the Lord
Psalm 115:9-11
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9 O Israel, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.(A)
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.(B)
2 Samuel 7:23
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23 Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another[a] nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people and to make a name for himself, doing[b] great and awesome things, driving out[c] nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:7-8
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7 For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him?(A) 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
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Habakkuk 3:19
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19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer
and makes me tread upon the heights.[a]
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
Psalm 66:3
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3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
Because of your great power, your enemies cringe before you.(A)
Psalm 33:20
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20 Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and shield.
Psalm 18:44
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44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
Deuteronomy 32:13
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13 He set him atop the heights of the land
and fed him with[a] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,(A)
Footnotes
- 32.13 Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate
Numbers 23:20-24
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20 See, I received a command to bless;
he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.(A)
21 He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob,
nor has he seen trouble in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
acclaimed as a king among them.(B)
22 God, who brings them out of Egypt,
is like the horns of a wild ox for them.(C)
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
‘See what God has done!’
24 Look, a people rising up like a lioness
and rousing itself like a lion!
It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey
and drunk the blood of the slain.”(D)
Genesis 15:1
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God’s Covenant with Abram
15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”(A)
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Revelation 19:21
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21 And the rest were killed by the sword of the rider on the horse, the sword that came from his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
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Revelation 1:16
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16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.(A)
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1 Timothy 4:10
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10 For to this end we toil and suffer reproach,[a] because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.(A)
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- 4.10 Other ancient authorities read struggle
Jeremiah 12:12
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12 Upon all the bare heights[a] in the desert,
spoilers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no one shall be safe.(A)
Footnotes
- 12.12 Or the trails
Isaiah 34:5-6
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5 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
upon Edom it will fall,
upon the people I have doomed to judgment.(A)
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.(B)
Isaiah 27:1
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Israel’s Redemption
27 On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.(A)
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Psalm 144:15
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15 Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall;
happy are the people whose God is the Lord.(A)
Psalm 45:3
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3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
in your glory and majesty.(A)
Psalm 33:12
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12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.(A)
Psalm 7:12
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- 7.12 Heb he
Joshua 10:24-25
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24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.(A) 25 And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous, for thus the Lord will do to all the enemies against whom you fight.”(B)
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