Psalm 71:5 (KJV)
“For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.”
Psalm 71:5 is verse of the day number 142 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “My hope from youth”. It comes from Psalm 71, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
Psalm 71:5 in other translations
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou artmy trust from my youth.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Psalm 71:5 in context
Psalm 71:2–8 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
2Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
3Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
7I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
8Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Cross-references for Psalm 71:5
Passages most often linked to Psalm 71:5, strongest connections first.
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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