Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord is their strength,
And He is a saving defense to His anointed.

King James Version

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Holman Bible

The Lord is the strength of His people;
He is a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.

International Standard Version

The LORD is the strength of his people; he is a refuge of deliverance for his anointed.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Amplified


The Lord is their [unyielding] strength,
And He is the fortress of salvation to His anointed.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah strength to them, and he the fortress of salvations of his Messiah.

King James 2000

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh [is] their strength, and he [is] the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is a strength to them, and He is the saving strength of His anointed.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD is my strength, and he is the wholesome defense of his anointed.

NET Bible

The Lord strengthens his people; he protects and delivers his chosen king.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, is strength to his people, - And, the all-saving refuge of his Anointed One, is he!

Webster

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

World English Bible

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah is strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed is He.

Context Readings

My Strength

7 LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him. 8 LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Cross References

Psalm 20:6

Now I know that LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

1 Samuel 16:13

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

Psalm 140:7

O lord LORD, the strength of my salvation, thou have covered my head in the day of battle.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

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