Psalms 71:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 71:5

For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.

KJV

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ASV

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou artmy trust from my youth.

WEB

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

YLT

For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.

DBT

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.

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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

27 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Psalms 62:5
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms 146:5
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

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Voices2

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); that is, "thou hast proposed thyself to me in thy word as the proper object of my hope and trust; I have hoped in thee, and never found it in vain to do so." 2. How his confidence in God is supported and encouraged by his experiences (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): " Thou hast been my trust from my youth; ever since I was capable of discerning between my right hand and my left, I stayed myself upon thee, and saw a great deal of reason to do so; for by thee have I been holden up from the womb. " Ever since he had the use of his reason he had been a dependent upon God's goodness, because ever since he had had a being he had been a monument of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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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.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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