After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Deuteronomy 33:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, but you shall tread on their backs.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And who is the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Happy are you, O Israel, and blessing is yours! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the Shield of your help, the Sword that exalts you! Your enemies shall come fawning and cringing, and submit feigned obedience to you, and you shall march on their high places. American Standard Version (1901) Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places. Common English Bible Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people saved by the LORD! He’s the shield that helps you, your majestic sword! Your enemies will come crawling on their knees to you, but you will stomp on their backs! Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, the people who are saved by the Lord? He is the shield of your assistance and the sword of your glory. Your enemies will refuse to acknowledge you, and so you shall tread upon their necks." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed are thou, Israel: Who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? The shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory. Thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks. |
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people and to make a name for himself, doing great and awesome things, driving out nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?
When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,
Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall; happy are the people whose God is the Lord.
As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.
Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power, your enemies cringe before you.
Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel and whose power is in the skies.
If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;
Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their doom would last forever.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and will not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.”
On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
they will live on the heights; their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks; their food will be supplied, their water assured.
But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded ever again.
then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Upon all the bare heights in the desert, spoilers have come, for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no one shall be safe.
Ah, sword of the Lord! How long until you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer and makes me tread upon the heights. To the leader: with stringed instruments.
you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.
He set him atop the heights of the land and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock,
“For ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has its like ever been heard of?
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
For to this end we toil and suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.
And the rest were killed by the sword of the rider on the horse, the sword that came from his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
So the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches and in their right hands the trumpets to blow, and they cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”