Deuteronomy 33:29
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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.”
Isaiah 45:17
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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.
Isaiah 12:2
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2 “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.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
Psalm 115:9-11
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9 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.
Footnotes
- Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel
2 Samuel 7:23
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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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- 2 Samuel 7:23 With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you
- 2 Samuel 7:23 Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew awesome things for your land, before your people
Habakkuk 3:19
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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.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 3:19 Hebrew my stringed
Psalm 66:3
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3 Say to God, (A)“How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies (B)come cringing to you.
Psalm 33:20
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Deuteronomy 32:13
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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.
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
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7 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? 8 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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Numbers 23:20-24
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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.”
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: (A)“Fear not, Abram, I am (B)your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
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Revelation 19:21
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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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Revelation 1:16
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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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1 Timothy 4:10
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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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- 1 Timothy 4:10 Some manuscripts and suffer reproach
Jeremiah 12:12
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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.
Isaiah 34:5-6
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5 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.
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.
(C)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 27:1
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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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Psalm 144:15
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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!
Psalm 84:11
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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.
Psalm 45:3
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Psalm 33:12
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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!
Psalm 18:44
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Psalm 7:12
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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;
Footnotes
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
Joshua 10:24-25
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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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