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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Psalms 18:32

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way blameless.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Perfection;   The Topic Concordance - Deeds;   Giving and Gifts;   God;   Greatness;   Salvation;   Strength;   Stumbling/slipping;   Teaching;   Upholdment;   War/weapons;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Perfection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Way;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Israel, Religion of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 23;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God—he clothes me with strengthand makes my way perfect.
Hebrew Names Version
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
King James Version
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
English Standard Version
the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
New Century Version
God is my protection. He makes my way free from fault.
New English Translation
The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.
Amplified Bible
The God who encircles me with strength And makes my way blameless?
New American Standard Bible
The God who encircles me with strength, And makes my way blameless?
World English Bible
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Geneva Bible (1587)
God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.
Legacy Standard Bible
The God who girds me with strengthAnd makes my way blameless?
Contemporary English Version
You give me strength and guide me right.
Complete Jewish Bible
"For who is God but Adonai ? Who is a Rock but our God?
Darby Translation
The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,
Easy-to-Read Version
God is the one who gives me strength. He clears the path I need to take.
George Lamsa Translation
It is God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
Good News Translation
He is the God who makes me strong, who makes my pathway safe.
Lexham English Bible
The God who girded me with strength, and made safe my way,
Literal Translation
It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is God that hath gyrded me with stregth and made my waye vncorrupte.
American Standard Version
The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?
Bible in Basic English
God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a Rock, except our God?
King James Version (1611)
It is God that girdeth mee with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:
English Revised Version
The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi, who is God out takun the Lord? ethir who is God outakun oure God?
Update Bible Version
The God that girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect?
Webster's Bible Translation
[It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
New King James Version
It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.
New Living Translation
God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect.
New Life Bible
It is God Who covers me with strength and makes my way perfect.
New Revised Standard
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The GOD who girded me with strength, and set forth, as blameless, my way:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-33) God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
Revised Standard Version
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
Young's Literal Translation
God! who is girding me [with] strength, And He maketh perfect my way.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The God who girds me with strength And makes my way blameless?

Contextual Overview

29For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall. 30As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. 31For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the rock except our God? 32It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way blameless.33He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and stations me upon the heights. 34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 35You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me. 36You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way. 37I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed. 38I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

girdeth: The girdle was a necessary part of the eastern dress: It strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and to tuck them in when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to his body. Psalms 28:7, Psalms 91:2, Psalms 93:1, Isaiah 45:5, 2 Corinthians 3:5

maketh: 2 Samuel 22:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:24 - were made Joshua 14:12 - if so be 1 Samuel 19:8 - David 2 Samuel 22:40 - girded 1 Chronicles 19:18 - fled before Israel 1 Chronicles 29:12 - give strength Psalms 18:1 - my Psalms 18:39 - girded Psalms 60:12 - we shall Psalms 62:6 - rock Psalms 89:21 - With Isaiah 5:27 - neither Isaiah 23:10 - strength Isaiah 28:6 - and for strength Ezekiel 30:24 - I will Zechariah 9:13 - made Zechariah 12:5 - The inhabitants Hebrews 11:33 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread."
Genesis 18:7
Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender, choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:9
"Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked. "There, in the tent," he replied.
Genesis 18:10
Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
Genesis 18:11
And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18:13
And the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really bear a child when I am old?'
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you-in about a year-and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 18:15
But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh." For she was afraid. "No," replied the LORD, "but you did laugh."
Genesis 18:16
When the men got up to leave they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
Genesis 18:17
And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] God that girdeth me with strength,.... For battle, as in Psalms 18:39; with strength of body and fortitude of mind; both which are from the Lord, and were in David; and were acknowledged by him as bestowed on him by the Lord; and which confirms what he had before said of him: or with spiritual strength, with strength in his soul, against sin, Satan, and the world; and to do the will and work of God: saints are girt by the Lord with the whole armour of God, and among the rest with the girdle of truth; and are prepared and ready to every good work; see 1 Samuel 2:4. Hannah's song is again referred to: in

2 Samuel 22:33, the words are, "God is my strength [and] power"; they are true of Christ, the man of God's right hand, whom he promised to strengthen, and whom he has made strong for himself, Psalms 80:17;

and maketh my way perfect; or safe, or prosperous. God removed every impediment and obstacle out of his way, and made it plain and easy, as Jarchi observes; and succeeded him, and gave him victory over his enemies; this has been verified in Christ, who has conquered sin, Satan, the world, death, and the grave: for this is not to be understood of the way and course of David's life and conversation, which was not perfect and unspotted, but had many blemishes and imperfections in it, which he often owns, confesses, and bewails.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is God that girdeth me with strength - Who gives me strength. The word girdeth contains an allusion to the mode of dress among the orientals, the long flowing robe, which was girded up when they ran or labored, that it might not impede them; and, probably, with the additional idea that girding the loins contributed to strength. It is a common custom now for men who run a race, or leap, or engage in a strife of pugilism, to gird or bind up their loins. See Job 40:7, note; and Matthew 5:38-41, notes.

And maketh my way perfect - Gives me complete success in my undertakings; or, enables me so to carry them out that none of them fail.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:32. God - girdeth me with strength — The girdle was a necessary part of the Eastern dress; it strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and in it they tucked them up when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to the body. I need not add, that the girdle was also an ornamental part of the dress, and from it the sword was suspended.

And maketh my way perfect. — He directs me so that I do not go astray; he blesses me in my undertakings; and by him the issue of my labours is crowned with prosperity.


 
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