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Good News Translation
Psalms 18:32
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God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.
God—he clothes me with strengthand makes my way perfect.
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
God is the one who gives me strength. He clears the path I need to take.
the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.
The God who encircles me with strength And makes my way blameless?
The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?
You give me strength and guide me right.
"For who is God but Adonai ? Who is a Rock but our God?
For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a Rock, except our God?
It is God that girdeth mee with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:
The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way blameless.
The God who girded me with strength, and made safe my way,
It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect;
God is my protection. He makes my way free from fault.
The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.
It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.
God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect.
It is God Who covers me with strength and makes my way perfect.
The GOD who girded me with strength, and set forth, as blameless, my way:
(17-33) God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
It is God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
The God who encircles me with strength, And makes my way blameless?
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,
For whi, who is God out takun the Lord? ethir who is God outakun oure God?
God! who is girding me [with] strength, And He maketh perfect my way.
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.
The God that girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect?
[It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
It is God that hath gyrded me with stregth and made my waye vncorrupte.
The God who girds me with strength And makes my way blameless?
The God who girds me with strengthAnd makes my way blameless?
Contextual Overview
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
Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."
Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready.
Then they asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "She is there in the tent," he answered.
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
Then the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. "I didn't laugh," she said. "Yes, you did," he replied. "You laughed."
Then the men left and went to a place where they could look down at Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
And the Lord said to himself, "I will not hide from Abraham what I am going 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.
