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Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.
22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.
Notice
“Be strong” comes after a cry of abandonment and an answered prayer, so the closing courage has a history of distress behind it.
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Psalm 27:14Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.Both passages say, “Be strong, and let your heart take courage,” addressing those who wait for or hope in the LORD.
Psalm 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,Both passages name the LORD as the one in whom people place their hope.
Colossians 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,Strength is the shared thread: Psalm 31 urges courage, while Colossians describes strength from God’s glory for endurance.
Isaiah 35:3–4Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.Both passages urge strength, with Psalm 31 naming the heart and Isaiah naming weak hands and feeble knees.
Psalm 29:11The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.Psalm 31 urges those who hope in the LORD to be strong; Psalm 29 says the LORD gives his people strength.
Hebrews 12:12–13Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,Both passages urge renewed resolve, expressed through the heart in Psalm 31 and through hands and knees in Hebrews.
Psalm 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.Psalm 31 urges courage of heart; Psalm 138 describes God answering a call with encouragement and strength in the soul.
James 5:10–11Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.Psalm 31 urges courage in hope; James points to the Lord’s prophets as examples of perseverance through suffering.
Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,The connection is limited: Psalm 31 urges courage, while the supplied words from Luke describe Satan’s threat against Simon and his companions.
Romans 15:12–13Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”Hope links the passages: Psalm 31 names the LORD, while Romans names the root of Jesse who will rule the Gentiles.
1 Peter 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.Both passages direct hope toward God; Peter identifies him as the one who raised Christ from the dead.
Lamentations 3:24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”Both passages speak of hope in the LORD, with Lamentations expressing that hope through the confession that he is the speaker’s portion.
Where this verse fits
Waiting. fear for the future. feeling distant from God.
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The speaker who urges courage has known the fear of being cut off. Your distress need not silence hope: YHWH heard his cry.
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