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Psalm 118:14
The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
12They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.
13You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.
14The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
16The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD does valiantly!”
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After being pushed toward a fall, the singer names YHWH as his strength and song, turning remembered help into praise.
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Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”Both passages name the LORD as strength and song and declare that he has become the speaker’s salvation.
Exodus 15:2The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.Both use the same words to confess the LORD as strength, song, and salvation.
Psalm 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.Both speakers claim God as their salvation, with Psalm 18 adding images of shelter and defense.
Psalm 18:1For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of …Both songs name the LORD as the speaker’s strength in the context of deliverance from enemies.
Psalm 27:1By David. The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?Both name the LORD as salvation and strength, while Psalm 27 voices confidence through questions about fear.
Matthew 1:21–23She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”Both speak of salvation; the psalm credits the LORD with rescue, while Matthew names Jesus as saving his people from sins.
Isaiah 45:17Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.Both attribute salvation to the LORD, while Isaiah describes Israel’s salvation as everlasting.
Isaiah 45:22–25“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.Both locate salvation in God, with Isaiah addressing all the ends of the earth.
Psalm 118:21I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.Both declare that the LORD has become the speaker’s salvation, with verse 21 thanking him for answering.
1 Samuel 2:1Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your …Both speakers celebrate salvation from the LORD in a setting where enemies have opposed them.
Job 13:16This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.Both use the word salvation, though Job speaks of coming before God rather than singing about rescue.
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Your praise need not erase the trouble that came before it. Here, the song follows a near fall, and YHWH receives the credit for rescue.
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