Psalms 18:31 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:31

For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,

WEB

For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

YLT

For who is God besides Jehovah? And who is a rock save our God?

DBT

For who isGod save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not ourGod?

About this book

Old Testament

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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

14 verses on the floor

Psalms 144:1
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Isaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Psalms 62:6
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Deuteronomy 32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Psalms 86:8
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

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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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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

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

There is a God, and who is God save Jehovah? That God is a rock, for the support and shelter of his faithful worshippers; and who is a rock save our God? Thus he not only gives glory to God, but encourages his own faith in him.

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.

H43357× in canon H669778× in canon

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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 18:31ISA 45:5 ISA 44:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 18:31ISA 45:5 ISA 44:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 18:31DEU 32:39 1SA 2:6
PSA 18:31DEU 32:39 HOS 6:1
PSA 18:31DEU 32:39 JOB 5:18
PSA 18:31DEU 32:39 ISA 45:5
PSA 18:31DEU 32:39 ISA 45:22
PSA 18:31ISA 45:5 ISA 46:9

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