Psalms 18:32

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God—he clothes me with strengthand makes my way perfect.

Hebrew Names Version
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

King James Version
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

English Standard Version
the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.

New Century Version
God is my protection. He makes my way free from fault.

New English Translation
The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.

Amplified Bible
The God who encircles me with strength And makes my way blameless?

New American Standard Bible
The God who encircles me with strength, And makes my way blameless?

World English Bible
The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Geneva Bible (1587)
God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.

Legacy Standard Bible
The God who girds me with strengthAnd makes my way blameless?

Berean Standard Bible
It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way blameless.

Contemporary English Version
You give me strength and guide me right.

Complete Jewish Bible
"For who is God but Adonai ? Who is a Rock but our God?

Darby Translation
The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,

Easy-to-Read Version
God is the one who gives me strength. He clears the path I need to take.

George Lamsa Translation
It is God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.

Good News Translation
He is the God who makes me strong, who makes my pathway safe.

Lexham English Bible
The God who girded me with strength, and made safe my way,

Literal Translation
It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is God that hath gyrded me with stregth and made my waye vncorrupte.

American Standard Version
The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?

Bible in Basic English
God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a Rock, except our God?

King James Version (1611)
It is God that girdeth mee with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:

English Revised Version
The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi, who is God out takun the Lord? ethir who is God outakun oure God?

Update Bible Version
The God that girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect?

Webster's Bible Translation
[It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

New King James Version
It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect.

New Living Translation
God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect.

New Life Bible
It is God Who covers me with strength and makes my way perfect.

New Revised Standard
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The GOD who girded me with strength, and set forth, as blameless, my way:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-33) God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.

Revised Standard Version
the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.

Young's Literal Translation
God! who is girding me [with] strength, And He maketh perfect my way.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The God who girds me with strength And makes my way blameless?

Contextual Overview

³⁰ What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. ³¹Is there any god like God ? Are we not at bedrock? Is not this the God who armed me, then aimed me in the right direction? Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain. He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow! You protect me with salvation-armor; you hold me up with a firm hand, caress me with your gentle ways. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men. I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them. You armed me well for this fight, you smashed the upstarts. You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters. They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer. I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter. ⁴³You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they listened. The foreign devils gave up; they came on their bellies, crawling from their hideouts. ⁴⁶Live, God ! Blessings from my Rock, my free and freeing God, towering! This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back. He rescued me from enemy anger, he pulled me from the grip of upstarts, He saved me from the bullies. ⁴⁹That's why I'm thanking you, God , all over the world. That's why I'm singing songs that rhyme your name. God's king takes the trophy; God's chosen is beloved. I mean David and all his children— always.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

girdeth: The girdle was a necessary part of the eastern dress: It strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and to tuck them in when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to his body. Psalms 28:7, Psalms 91:2, Psalms 93:1, Isaiah 45:5, 2 Corinthians 3:5

maketh: 2 Samuel 22:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:24 - were made Joshua 14:12 - if so be 1 Samuel 19:8 - David 2 Samuel 22:40 - girded 1 Chronicles 19:18 - fled before Israel 1 Chronicles 29:12 - give strength Psalms 18:1 - my Psalms 18:39 - girded Psalms 60:12 - we shall Psalms 62:6 - rock Psalms 89:21 - With Isaiah 5:27 - neither Isaiah 23:10 - strength Isaiah 28:6 - and for strength Ezekiel 30:24 - I will Zechariah 9:13 - made Zechariah 12:5 - The inhabitants Hebrews 11:33 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. He said, "Hurry. Get three cups of our best flour; knead it and make bread."

Genesis 18:7
Then Abraham ran to the cattle pen and picked out a nice plump calf and gave it to the servant who lost no time getting it ready. Then he got curds and milk, brought them with the calf that had been roasted, set the meal before the men, and stood there under the tree while they ate.

Genesis 18:9
The men said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He said, "In the tent."

Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "I'm coming back about this time next year. When I arrive, your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening at the tent opening, just behind the man.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, "An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?"

Genesis 18:13
God said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?' Is anything too hard for God ? I'll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby."

Genesis 18:15
Sarah lied. She said, "I didn't laugh," because she was afraid. But he said, "Yes you did; you laughed."

Genesis 18:16
When the men got up to leave, they set off for Sodom. Abraham walked with them to say good-bye.

Genesis 18:17
Then God said, "Shall I keep back from Abraham what I'm about to do? Abraham is going to become a large and strong nation; all the nations of the world are going to find themselves blessed through him. Yes, I've settled on him as the one to train his children and future family to observe God 's way of life, live kindly and generously and fairly, so that God can complete in Abraham what he promised him."

Genesis 18:20
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] God that girdeth me with strength,.... For battle, as in Psalms 18:39; with strength of body and fortitude of mind; both which are from the Lord, and were in David; and were acknowledged by him as bestowed on him by the Lord; and which confirms what he had before said of him: or with spiritual strength, with strength in his soul, against sin, Satan, and the world; and to do the will and work of God: saints are girt by the Lord with the whole armour of God, and among the rest with the girdle of truth; and are prepared and ready to every good work; see 1 Samuel 2:4. Hannah's song is again referred to: in

2 Samuel 22:33, the words are, "God is my strength [and] power"; they are true of Christ, the man of God's right hand, whom he promised to strengthen, and whom he has made strong for himself, Psalms 80:17;

and maketh my way perfect; or safe, or prosperous. God removed every impediment and obstacle out of his way, and made it plain and easy, as Jarchi observes; and succeeded him, and gave him victory over his enemies; this has been verified in Christ, who has conquered sin, Satan, the world, death, and the grave: for this is not to be understood of the way and course of David's life and conversation, which was not perfect and unspotted, but had many blemishes and imperfections in it, which he often owns, confesses, and bewails.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is God that girdeth me with strength - Who gives me strength. The word girdeth contains an allusion to the mode of dress among the orientals, the long flowing robe, which was girded up when they ran or labored, that it might not impede them; and, probably, with the additional idea that girding the loins contributed to strength. It is a common custom now for men who run a race, or leap, or engage in a strife of pugilism, to gird or bind up their loins. See Job 40:7, note; and Matthew 5:38-41, notes.

And maketh my way perfect - Gives me complete success in my undertakings; or, enables me so to carry them out that none of them fail.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:32. God - girdeth me with strength — The girdle was a necessary part of the Eastern dress; it strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and in it they tucked them up when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to the body. I need not add, that the girdle was also an ornamental part of the dress, and from it the sword was suspended.

And maketh my way perfect. — He directs me so that I do not go astray; he blesses me in my undertakings; and by him the issue of my labours is crowned with prosperity.