Job 29:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 when the Almighty[a] was still with me,
when my children were around me,
Footnotes
- 29.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Psalm 128:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.(A)
Psalm 127:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.(A)
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the sons of one’s youth.
5 Happy is the man who has
his quiver full of them.
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.(B)
Psalm 30:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you had established me as a strong mountain;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.(A)
Joshua 1:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”(A)
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 33:27-29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 He subdues the ancient gods,[a]
shatters[b] the forces of old;[c]
he drove out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy!’(A)
28 So Israel lives in safety,
untroubled is Jacob’s abode[d]
in a land of grain and wine,
where the heavens drop down dew.(B)
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.”(C)
Matthew 9:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 And Jesus said to them, “The wedding attendants cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 14:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 O hope of Israel,
its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler turning aside for the night?(A)
Proverbs 17:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of children is their parents.(A)
Psalm 44:8-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah(A)
9 Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
and have not gone out with our armies.(B)
Psalm 43:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.