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Good News Translation

Psalms 94:22

But the Lord defends me; my God protects me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Foundation, Spiritual;   Rock;   Security-Insecurity;   The Topic Concordance - Defense;   God;   Refuge;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Rocks;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Misgab;   Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rock;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rock;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Rock;  

Devotionals:

- Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for February 29;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the Lord is my refuge;my God is the rock of my protection.
Hebrew Names Version
But the LORD has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
King James Version
But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
English Standard Version
But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
New Century Version
But the Lord is my defender; my God is the rock of my protection.
New English Translation
But the Lord will protect me, and my God will shelter me.
Amplified Bible
But the LORD has become my high tower and defense, And my God the rock of my refuge.
New American Standard Bible
But the LORD has been my refuge, And my God the rock of my refuge.
World English Bible
But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the Lorde is my refuge, and my God is the rocke of mine hope.
Legacy Standard Bible
But Yahweh has been my stronghold,And my God the rock of my refuge.
Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD has been my stronghold, and my God is my rock of refuge.
Contemporary English Version
You, Lord God, are my fortress, that mighty rock where I am safe.
Complete Jewish Bible
But Adonai has become my stronghold, my God is my rock of refuge.
Darby Translation
But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord is my place of safety, high on the mountain. God, my Rock, is my safe place!
George Lamsa Translation
But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Lexham English Bible
But Yahweh has become my high stronghold, and my God has become my rock of refuge.
Literal Translation
But Jehovah is my tower of defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the LORDE is my refuge, my God is the stregth of my confidece.
American Standard Version
But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
Bible in Basic English
But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the LORD hath been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.
King James Version (1611)
But the Lord is my defence: and my God is the rocke of my refuge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But God is to me a refuge: and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope.
English Revised Version
But the LORD hath been my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord was maad to me in to refuyt; and my God was maad in to the help of myn hope.
Update Bible Version
But Yahweh has been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
Webster's Bible Translation
But the LORD is my defense; and my God [is] the rock of my refuge.
New King James Version
But the LORD has been my defense, And my God the rock of my refuge.
New Living Translation
But the Lord is my fortress; my God is the mighty rock where I hide.
New Life Bible
But the Lord has been my strong place, my God, and the rock where I am safe.
New Revised Standard
But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, Yahweh, hath become for me a high tower, And my God, my rock of refuge.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(93-22) But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.
Revised Standard Version
But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the Lord has been my stronghold, And my God the rock of my refuge.

Contextual Overview

12 Lord , how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law! 13 You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked. 14 The Lord will not abandon his people; he will not desert those who belong to him. 15 Justice will again be found in the courts, and all righteous people will support it. 16 Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against the evildoers? 17 If the Lord had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence. 18 I said, "I am falling"; but your constant love, O Lord , held me up. 19 Whenever I am anxious and worried, you comfort me and make me glad. 20 You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal, 21 who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But: Psalms 94:10, Psalms 27:1-3, Psalms 59:9, Psalms 59:16, Psalms 59:17, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:6

the rock: Psalms 18:2, Isaiah 33:16

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:2 - my strong rock Psalms 62:7 - rock Ecclesiastes 3:16 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the Lord is my defence,.... The defence of his church and people, of all the righteous, against those great armies of their enemies that gather together against them: the Targum, in the king's Bible is,

"the Word of the Lord shall be my weapon:''

and my God is the rock of my refuge; to whom recourse is had for shelter from the enemy, and against which the gates of hell cannot prevail: both characters, rock and refuge, agree with Christ, the essential Word of the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But the Lord is my defense ... - In all these purposes of the wicked; in all that they do - whether under the form and sanction of law Psalms 94:20, or by the excitement of passion - my trust is still in God. He is able to interpose in either case, and I may confidently commit my cause to him. On the language used here, as well as the sentiment, see the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 94:22. The rock of my refuge. — Alluding to those natural fortifications among rocks, which are frequent in the land of Judea.


 
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