Psalms 71:5
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
BSB
ASV
For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth.
KJV
For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
A lifelong hope in God traced back to youth, tested across a whole life.
For thou art my hope, O Lord God,.... The object, ground, and foundation of it, even of present deliverance, and of future and eternal salvation; thou art my trust from my youth; in whom he trusted in his youthful days, of which there is an eminent instance in 1Sa 17:33.
For thou art my hope, O Lord God. God who gives us grace to hope in him, will assuredly fulfil our hope, and, therefore, we may plead it in prayer. His name is "Jehovah, the hope of Israel" (Jer 17:13); and, as he cannot be a false or failing hope, we may expect to see our confidence justified. Thou art my trust from my youth.
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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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
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You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
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Psalms 39:7And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.