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Psalm 28:9

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28:9Deliver your people!

Empower24 the nation that belongs to you!25

Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms26 at all times!27

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Footnotes

  1. 24 Or “bless.”
  2. 25 Heb “your inheritance.” The parallelism (note “your people”) indicates that Israel is in view.
  3. 26 Heb “shepherd them and lift them up.” The shepherd metaphor is sometimes associated with royal responsibility. See 2 Sam 5:2; 7:7; Mic 5:2–4).
  4. 27 Or “forever.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!

Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Save your people and bless your inheritance;

be their shepherd and carry them forever.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Save your people, bless your possession,

shepherd them, and carry them forever.

NLTNew Living Translation

Save your people!

Bless Israel, your special possession.

Lead them like a shepherd,

and carry them in your arms forever.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Save your people

and bless your heritage.

Shepherd them also and carry them always.

KJV 1900King James Version

Save thy people,

And bless thine inheritance:

Feed them also, and lift them up for ever.