Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!

New American Standard Bible

My shield is with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.

King James Version

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

Holman Bible

My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.

International Standard Version

God is my shield, the one who delivers the upright in heart.

A Conservative Version

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

American Standard Version

My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart.

Amplified


My shield and my defense depend on God,
Who saves the upright in heart.

Bible in Basic English

God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

Darby Translation

My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.

Julia Smith Translation

My shield upon God, saving the upright of heart

King James 2000

My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My shield [is] with God who saves the upright of heart.

Modern King James verseion

My defense is from God, who saves the upright in heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My help cometh of God, who preserveth them that are true of heart.

NET Bible

The Exalted God is my shield, the one who delivers the morally upright.

New Heart English Bible

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

The Emphasized Bible

My shield, is held by God, who is ready to save the upright in heart:

Webster

My defense is from God, who saveth the upright in heart.

World English Bible

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

9 Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God. 10 My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart! 11 God is a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.


Cross References

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O Jehovah, to the good, And to the upright in their hearts.

Genesis 15:1

After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to thee, thy reward is exceeding great.'

Job 8:6

If pure and upright thou art, Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

Psalm 3:3

And Thou, O Jehovah, art a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.

Psalm 18:1-2

To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: -- I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

Psalm 84:11

For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

Psalm 89:18

For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

Psalm 112:2

Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

Proverbs 11:20

An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

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