Psalms 18:32 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:32

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

KJV

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ASV

The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?

WEB

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

YLT

God! who is girding me with strength, And He maketh perfect my way.

DBT

TheGod who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

22 verses on the floor

Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Psalms 28:7
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.
2 Samuel 22:33
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Psalms 91:2
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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God's perfection is the source of his own, which has resulted from his trust on the one hand, and God's promised help on the other. tried--"as metals are tried by fire and proved genuine" (Ps 12:6). Girding was essential to free motion on account of the looseness of Oriental dresses; hence it is an expressive figure for describing the gift of strength.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

David, in God's providences concerning him, takes notice of the performance of his promises to him, which, as it puts sweetness into the providence, so it puts honour upon the promise. As the protector and defender of his people. David had found him so to him: " He is the God of my salvation (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 18:32PSA 91:2 ISA 12:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 18:32PSA 28:7 EPH 6:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 18:32PSA 91:2 PSA 18:2
PSA 18:32PSA 91:2 ISA 26:3-4
PSA 18:32PSA 28:7 PSA 30:11-12
PSA 18:32PSA 91:2 PRO 18:10
PSA 18:32PSA 28:7 PSA 56:3-4
PSA 18:32PSA 91:2 PSA 142:5

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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