Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Our soul waited for Jehovah: he our help and our shield.

New American Standard Bible

Our soul waits for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.

King James Version

Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Holman Bible

We wait for Yahweh;
He is our help and shield.

International Standard Version

We wait on the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

A Conservative Version

Our soul has waited for LORD. He is our help and our shield.

American Standard Version

Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.

Amplified


We wait [expectantly] for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.

Bible in Basic English

Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

Darby Translation

Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.

King James 2000

Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Our soul waits for Yahweh; he [is] our help and our shield.

Modern King James verseion

Our soul waits for Jehovah; He is our help and our shield.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let our soul patiently abide the LORD, for he is our help and shield.

NET Bible

We wait for the Lord; he is our deliverer and shield.

New Heart English Bible

Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

The Emphasized Bible

Our own soul, hath waited for Yahweh, Our help and our shield, is he!

Webster

Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

World English Bible

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Youngs Literal Translation

Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield is He,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

חכה 
Chakah 
Usage: 14

for the Lord

Usage: 0

he is our help
עזר 
`ezer 
Usage: 21

References

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Character And Creation

19 To deliver their soul from death, and to save them alive in famine. 20 Our soul waited for Jehovah: he our help and our shield. 21 For in him our heart shall rejoice, for in his holy name we trusted.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 5:20

And they will be helped against them, and the Hagarites will be given into their hand, and all with them: for they cried to God in the war, and he was entreated for them, for they trusted in him.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and thy heart shall be strengthened: and wait for Jehovah.

Psalm 62:1-2

To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting to David. Surely my soul was silent to God: from him my salvation.

Psalm 62:5-6

Only, my soul be thou silent to God; for from him my hope.

Psalm 115:9-12

O Israel, trust in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield.

Psalm 130:5-6

I waited for Jehovah, my soul waited, and I hoped for his word

Psalm 144:1-2

. To David. Blessed be Jehovah my rock, teaching my hands for the encounter, my fingers for war;

Isaiah 8:17

And I waited for Jehovah in his hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I trusted to him.

Isaiah 40:31

And they waiting for Jehovah shall change power; they shall go up on the wing as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall go and not faint.

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