KJV King James Version
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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Psalm 28:9
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
WEB World English Bible
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
ASV American Standard Version
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!
Surrounding context — Psalm 28
6 Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
7 The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
8 The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הוֹשִׁ֤יעָה׀H3467 · ya.sahto saveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַמֶּ֗ךָH5971 · ampeopleוּבָרֵ֥ךְH1288 · ba.rakhto blessאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָH5159 · na.cha.lahinheritanceוּֽרְעֵ֥םH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsוְ֝נַשְּׂאֵ֗םH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseעַד־H5704 · adtillהָעוֹלָֽם׃H5769 · o.lamforever: enduring
Cross-references
Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.Psalm 78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.Matthew 2:6And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.1 Kings 8:51For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:Ephesians 1:18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,1 Kings 8:53For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.Ezra 1:4And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.Micah 7:14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.Psalm 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.Jeremiah 31:7For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.Psalm 80:14-19Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;Psalm 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.Micah 5:4And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.Micah 5:2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:Ezekiel 34:23-24And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
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