Psalm 60:4 {59:6}
Good News Translation
You have warned those who have reverence for you, so that they might escape destruction.

New Revised Standard Version
You have set up a banner for those who fear you, to rally to it out of bowshot. Selah

Contemporary English Version
You gave a signal to those who worship you, so they could escape from enemy arrows.

New American Bible
Raise up a banner for those who revere you, a refuge for them out of bow shot. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.

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Psalm 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.

Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar; and called the name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:

Songs 2:4 He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.

Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 49:22 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their shoulders.

Isaiah 59:19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

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Psalm 12:1,2 Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men. . . .

Psalm 45:4 With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully.

Isaiah 59:14,15 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in. . . .

Jeremiah 5:1-3 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it. . . .

Context
Victory Through God
3Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow. 4Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.5Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.…
Cross References
Psalm 20:5
We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.

Isaiah 5:26
And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.

Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 13:2
Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.

Psalm 60:3
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