Psalms 121:5

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“The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.”

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Read Psalms 121:5 in the flow of Psalms121 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Psalms121 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

“The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> thy preserver, Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> thy shade on thy right hand,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 121:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
  2. Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  3. Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
  4. Psalms 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
  5. Isaiah 4:5Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
  6. Isaiah 25:4For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
  7. Isaiah 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
  8. Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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