Psalms 27:13

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“Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”

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BSBPD

“Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 27:13 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 28:13No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
  2. Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
  3. Psalms 31:19How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
  4. Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
  5. Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
  6. Psalms 56:3When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
  7. Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
  8. Psalms 116:9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
  9. Psalms 142:5I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
  10. Psalms 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
  11. Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
  12. Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
  13. Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
  14. Ezekiel 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
  15. 2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
  16. 2 Corinthians 4:8We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
  17. 2 Corinthians 4:16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
  18. Ephesians 2:8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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