Parallel Verses

Amplified


Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;
Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.

New American Standard Bible

Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;
Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.

King James Version

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Holman Bible

Save Your people, bless Your possession,
shepherd them, and carry them forever.

International Standard Version

Deliver your people and bless your inheritance! Shepherd them and lift them up forever! A Davidic Psalm.

A Conservative Version

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

American Standard Version

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.

Bible in Basic English

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

Darby Translation

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

Save thy people and bless thine inheritance, and feed them and lift them up even forever.

King James 2000

Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Save your people and bless your heritage. Shepherd them also and carry them always.

Modern King James verseion

Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; feed them also, and lift them up forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance; feed them, and set them up forever.

NET Bible

Deliver your people! Empower the nation that belongs to you! Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!

New Heart English Bible

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

The Emphasized Bible

Oh save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, Tend them also, and carry them, Unto times age-abiding.

Webster

Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

World English Bible

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. A Psalm by David.

Youngs Literal Translation

Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!

References

Context Readings

My Strength

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The Lord is their [unyielding] strength,
And He is the fortress of salvation to His anointed.
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Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;
Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:29

Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.’

Isaiah 40:11


He will protect His flock like a shepherd,
He will gather the lambs in His arm,
He will carry them in His bosom;
He will gently and carefully lead those nursing their young.

1 Kings 8:51

(for they are Your people and Your heritage, whom You brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace [of slavery and oppression]),

Ezra 1:4

In any place where a survivor (Jewish exile) may live, let the men (Gentiles) of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with freewill offerings for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

Psalm 78:71


From tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried and protected you, just as a man carries his son, all along the way which you traveled until you arrived at this place.’

Deuteronomy 32:9


“For the Lord’s portion and chosen share is His people;
Jacob (Israel) is the allotment of His inheritance.

2 Samuel 7:7

Wherever I have gone with all the Israelites, did I speak a word to any from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, asking, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

2 Samuel 21:3

So David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? How can I make it good so that you will bless the Lord’s inheritance (Israel)?”

1 Kings 8:53

For You singled them out from all the peoples of the earth as Your heritage, just as You declared through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

Psalm 14:7


Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Then Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

Psalm 25:22


O God, redeem Israel,
Out of all his troubles.

Psalm 80:14-19


Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Isaiah 46:3


“Listen to Me,” [says the Lord], “O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been carried by Me from your birth
And have been carried [in My arms] from the womb,

Isaiah 63:9


In all their distress He was distressed,
And the angel of His presence saved them,
In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them;
And He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 10:16


The Portion of Jacob [the true God on whom Israel has a claim] is not like these;
For He is the Designer and Maker of all things,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance [and He will not fail them]—
The Lord of hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 31:7


For thus says the Lord,
“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
And shout for the first and foremost of the nations [the chosen people, Israel];
Proclaim, give praise and say,
‘O Lord save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’

Ezekiel 34:23-24

“Then I will appoint over them one shepherd and he will feed them, [a ruler like] My servant David; he will feed them and be their shepherd.

Micah 5:2


“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah;
From you One shall come forth for Me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel,
His goings forth (appearances) are from long ago,
From ancient days.”

Micah 5:4


And He shall stand and shepherd and guide His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God;
And they shall dwell [secure in undisturbed peace],
Because at that time He shall be great [extending His authority]
[Even] to the ends of the earth.

Micah 7:14


Shepherd and rule Your people with Your scepter [of blessing],
The flock of Your inheritance and Your possession
Which dwells alone [separate and secure from attack] in the forest,
In the midst of a garden land.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
As in the days of old [the days of Moses and Elijah].

Matthew 2:6


And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are not in any way least among the leaders of Judah;
For from you shall come a Ruler
Who will shepherd My people Israel.’”

Ephesians 1:18

And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),

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