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 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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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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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:2 Or song

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 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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Footnotes

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

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

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44     foreigners(A) cower before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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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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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 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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Footnotes

  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

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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16 In his right hand he held seven stars,(A) and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.(B) His face was like the sun(C) shining in all its brilliance.

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10 That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God,(A) who is the Savior of all people,(B) and especially of those who believe.

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12 Over all the barren heights in the desert
    destroyers will swarm,
for the sword(A) of the Lord(B) will devour(C)
    from one end of the land to the other;(D)
    no one will be safe.(E)

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My sword(A) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(B)
    the people I have totally destroyed.(C)
The sword(D) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(E) in Bozrah(F)
    and a great slaughter(G) in the land of Edom.

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Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,(A)

the Lord will punish with his sword(B)
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.

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15 Blessed is the people(A) of whom this is true;
    blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

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Gird your sword(A) on your side, you mighty one;(B)
    clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.(C)

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12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,(A)
    the people he chose(B) for his inheritance.(C)

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12 If he does not relent,(A)
    he[a] will sharpen his sword;(B)
    he will bend and string his bow.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:12 Or If anyone does not repent, / God

24 When they had brought these kings(A) to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him, “Come here and put your feet(B) on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet(C) on their necks.

25 Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous.(D) This is what the Lord will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.”

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