1 Samuel 2:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ “He guards the feet of His lovingly-commited ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He will keep the feet of his saints, And the wicked shall be silent in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He will guard the feet of His godly ones, but the wicked shall be silenced and perish in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

Common English Bible

⁹ God guards the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked die in darkness because no one succeeds by strength alone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ He will preserve the feet of his holy ones, and the impious will be silenced in darkness. For no man will prevail by his own strength.

1 Samuel 2:9 Cross References

Psalm 121:3

He does not allow your foot to be moved; He who watches over you does not slumber.

1 Peter 1:5

who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time,

Zechariah 4:6

And he answered and said to me, “This is the word of יהוה to Zerubbaḇel, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ said יהוה of hosts.

Psalm 97:10

You who love יהוה, hate evil! He guards the lives of His lovingly-committed ones, He delivers them out of the hand of the wrong.

Psalm 94:18

When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your loving-commitment, O יהוה, supported me.

Psalm 37:28

For יהוה loves right-ruling, And does not forsake His lovingly-committed ones; They shall be guarded forever, But the seed of the wrongdoers is cut off.

Job 5:24

And you shall know that your tent is in peace, and shall visit your tent and not sin,

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, He loves the peoples, all His set-apart ones are in Your hand. And they, they sat down at Your feet, receiving Your Words.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But יהוה establishes his steps.

Psalm 121:8

יהוה guards your going out and your coming in Now and forever.

2 Peter 2:17

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a storm, to whom the blackest darkness is kept forever.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and trouble, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge – for time and chance meets with them all.

Proverbs 3:26

For יהוה is at your side, And He shall guard your foot from being caught.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, and with much sorrow and sickness and wrath.

Proverbs 2:8

To watch over the paths of right-ruling, And the way of His lovingly-commited ones He guards.

Psalm 121:5

יהוה is your guard; יהוה is your shade at your right hand.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.

Jude 1:3

Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.

Jude 1:1

Yehuḏah, a servant of יהושע Messiah, and brother of Ya‛aqoḇ, to those who are called, set-apart by Elohim the Father, and preserved in יהושע Messiah:

Romans 3:19

And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus said יהוה, “Let not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches,

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.

Job 5:16

Thus the poor have expectancy, and unrighteousness shuts her mouth.

Numbers 6:24

יהוה bless you and guard you; ”

Psalm 31:17

Do not let me be ashamed, O יהוה, For I have called upon You; Let the wrong be ashamed; Let them be silenced in She’ol.

Isaiah 27:3

“I, יהוה, do guard it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I guard it night and day.

1 Samuel 25:26

“And now my master, as יהוה lives and as your being lives, since יהוה has withheld you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies be as Naḇal, even those seeking evil against my master.

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.

Job 40:13

Hide them in the dust together, bind their faces in obscurity.

Psalm 1:6

For יהוה knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wrong comes to naught.

Psalm 105:37

And brought them out with silver and gold, And among His tribes no one faltered.

Psalm 145:20

יהוה preserves all those loving Him, But all the wrong ones He destroys.

Isaiah 47:5

“Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of Kasdim! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.

Nahum 1:8

But with an overwhelming flood He makes a complete end of the place of Ninewĕh, and darkness does pursue His enemies.