Psalms 71:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.”
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BSBPD
“For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou artmy trust from my youth.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For Thou <FI>art<Fi> my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 71:5 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 16:13So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 17:33But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
- 1 Samuel 17:45But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- 1 Kings 18:12I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- Psalms 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
- Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- Psalms 39:7And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
- Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- Psalms 119:166I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
- Jeremiah 14:8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Jeremiah 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
- Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
- Jeremiah 17:17Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
- Jeremiah 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
- Luke 2:40And the Child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him.
- Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 2 Timothy 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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