Deuteronomy 7:9
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9 (A)Know, then, that the Lord, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,(B)
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Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 So Jacob ate and was satisfied,
Jeshurun[a] grew fat and kicked;
you became fat and gross and gorged.
They forsook the God who made them
and scorned the Rock of their salvation.(A)
Footnotes
- 32:15 Jeshurun: a term for Israel from yashar, meaning “upright”; its use here is possibly ironic.
Deuteronomy 32:18
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18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,
you forgot the God who gave you birth.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:30-31
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30 “How could one rout a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless it was because their Rock sold them,
the Lord delivered them up?”
31 Indeed, their “rock” is not like our Rock;
our enemies are fools.
2 Samuel 22:3
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3 my God, my rock of refuge!
My shield, my saving horn,[a]
my stronghold, my refuge,
my savior, from violence you keep me safe.(A)
Psalm 18:2
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Psalm 18:31
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31 God’s way is unerring;
the Lord’s promise is refined;
he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.(A)
Psalm 18:46
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46 foreigners cringed;
they came cowering from their dungeons.(A)
Psalm 92:15
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15 They shall bear fruit even in old age,
they will stay fresh and green,
Isaiah 17:10
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10 Truly, you have forgotten the God who saves you,
the Rock, your refuge, you have not remembered.(A)
Therefore, though you plant plants for the Pleasant One,[a]
and set out cuttings for a foreign one,(B)
Footnotes
- 17:10 The Pleasant One: an epithet for a foreign god of fertility, probably Adonis, in whose honor saplings were planted.
Habakkuk 1:12
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Habakkuk’s Second Complaint
12 Are you not from of old, O Lord,
my holy God, immortal?(A)
Lord, you have appointed them for judgment,[a]
O Rock,[b] you have set them in place to punish!
Revelation 15:3
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3 and they sang the song of Moses,[a] the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
“Great and wonderful are your works,
Lord God almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
O king of the nations.(A)
Footnotes
- 15:3 The song of Moses: the song that Moses and the Israelites sang after their escape from the oppression of Egypt (Ex 15:1–18). The martyrs have escaped from the oppression of the Devil. Nations: many other Greek manuscripts and versions read “ages.”
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