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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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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“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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Footnotes

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

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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Footnotes

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

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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Footnotes

  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

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

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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20 Our soul (A)waits for the Lord;
    he is our (B)help and (C)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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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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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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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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16 (A)In his right hand he held seven stars, (B)from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and (C)his face was like the sun shining (D)in full strength.

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10 For to this end we toil and strive,[a] because we have our hope set on the living God, (A)who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 4:10 Some manuscripts and suffer reproach

12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.

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For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon (A)Edom,
    upon the people (B)I have devoted to destruction.
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.
(C)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (A)sword will punish (B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (D)the dragon that is in the sea.

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15 (A)Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!
    (B)Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

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11 For the Lord God is (A)a sun and (B)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
(C)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who (D)walk uprightly.

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(A)Gird your (B)sword on your thigh, O (C)mighty one,
    in (D)your splendor and majesty!

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12 (A)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom he has (B)chosen as his heritage!

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44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
    (A)foreigners (B)came cringing to me.

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12 If a man[a] does not repent, God[b] will (A)whet his sword;
    he has (B)bent and (C)readied his bow;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
  2. Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he

24 And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war 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. 25 And Joshua said to them, (A)“Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. (B)For thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

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