Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

My shield is with God, who saves 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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

9 O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts. 10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 11 God is a righteous judge. Yea, a God who has indignation every day.


Cross References

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts.

Genesis 15:1

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

Job 8:6

if thou were pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Psalm 3:3

But thou, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory and he who lifts up of my head.

Psalm 18:1-2

I love thee, O LORD, my strength.

Psalm 84:11

For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 89:18

For our shield belongs to LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 112:2

His seed shall be mighty upon earth. 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

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to LORD, but such as are perfect in [their] way are his delight.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks uprightly shall be delivered, but he who is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.

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