Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

My shield is with God, who saveth 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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

9 Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God. 10 My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart. 11 God is a righteous judge, and a God who is indignant all the day.

Cross References

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

Job 8:6

If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;

Psalm 3:3

But thou, Jehovah, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Psalm 18:1-2

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

Psalm 84:11

For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psalm 89:18

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

Psalm 112:2

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;

Proverbs 11:20

The perverse in heart are abomination to Jehovah; but they that are perfect in their way are his delight.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in his double ways, shall fall in one of them.

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