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Psalm 27:14
Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
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The command to wait for YHWH comes twice, with courage between its repetitions, touching the strain of waiting while threats remain unresolved.
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Isaiah 40:31but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not …Both passages link waiting for the LORD with strength; Isaiah describes renewed strength for those who wait.
1 Corinthians 16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!Both passages command strength and courage, with Paul also urging watchfulness and firmness in the faith.
Psalm 31:24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.Both psalms use the same words about strength and the heart taking courage, addressing those who wait or hope in the LORD.
Deuteronomy 31:6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”Both passages command strength and courage; Deuteronomy grounds that courage in the LORD’s presence and his promise never to forsake his people.
Isaiah 30:18Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of …Both passages direct attention to waiting for the LORD; Isaiah declares those who wait for him blessed.
Psalm 55:22Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.Both psalms direct the troubled person toward the LORD, one through waiting and the other through casting a burden on him.
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely …Both passages urge waiting, though Habakkuk speaks of waiting for a vision’s appointed time and the psalm of waiting for the LORD.
Psalm 130:5I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.Waiting for the LORD is explicit in both psalms; Psalm 130 also names hope in his word.
Psalm 37:34Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.Both psalms command waiting for the LORD; Psalm 37 pairs that waiting with keeping his way.
Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.Strength is the shared thread: the psalm commands strength, while Philippians names Christ as the one who strengthens.
Proverbs 20:22Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.Both passages command waiting for the LORD amid wrongdoing; Proverbs applies that command to the urge to repay evil.
Ephesians 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.Both passages urge strength in relation to the Lord; Ephesians names his might as the source of that strength.
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Waiting. fear for the future. injustice and anger.
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No deadline is given for the waiting, and the prayer has named real threats. YHWH remains the one to wait for, even here.
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