Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

My shield upon God, saving the upright of 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.

Darby Translation

My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in 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 Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins. 10 My shield upon God, saving the upright of heart 11 God judging the just one, and being angry in all the days.


Cross References

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O Jehovah, to the good and to the upright in their hearts.

Genesis 15:1

After these words, the word of Jehovah was to Abram in a vision, saying, Thou shalt not fear, Abram: I a shield to thee, thy reward great exceedingly.

Job 8:6

If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.

Psalm 3:3

And thou, Jehovah, a shield about me: my glory, and lifting up my head.

Psalm 18:1-2

To the overseer; to the servant of Jehovah, of David who spake to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he will say, I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

Psalm 84:11

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Psalm 89:18

For to Jehovah our shield, and to the Holy One of Israel our King.

Psalm 112:2

His seed shall be great in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be praised.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the blameless shall remain in it

Proverbs 11:20

The perverse of heart are an abomination of Jehovah, and the blameless of way his delight

Proverbs 28:18

He going uprightly shall be saved; and he being violent in the ways shall fall at once.

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