KJV King James Version
[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
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Psalm 27:13
[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
WEB World English Bible
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
ASV American Standard Version
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
Surrounding context — Psalm 27
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
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2 Corinthians 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.Psalm 142:5I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.2 Corinthians 4:8-14[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;Psalm 56:3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.Psalm 31:19[Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!Psalm 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?Psalm 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.Psalm 116:9-11I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;Ephesians 2:8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:Job 28:13Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.Jeremiah 11:19But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.Ezekiel 26:20When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.Job 33:30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.Isaiah 38:11I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.Psalm 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
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