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4Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Trust in the Lord Forever
Isaiah 26:4
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4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
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4So always trust in Yahweh, because Yahweh, our God, is forever like [MET]MetaphorT4T flags this as figurative language — the meaning is not literal. The translator should find a natural equivalent metaphor in their target language. a huge rock under which we are sheltered/protected/safe.
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Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Berean Standard Bible
King James Version
Translation for Translators
T4T was designed as a tool for Bible translators, not as a devotional text. It makes implicit meaning explicit and flags figurative language with abbreviations. Gold [brackets] indicate translation notes. ◄Triangles► mark alternative renderings.Read more about how to read T4T →BSB and T4T shown with Greek annotations — · Why we show the Greek →
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Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
So always trust in Yahweh, because Yahweh, our God, is forever like [MET]MetaphorT4T flags this as figurative language — the meaning is not literal. The translator should find a natural equivalent metaphor in their target language. a huge rock under which we are sheltered/protected/safe.
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Hebrew, word by word
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בִּטְח֥וּ be bold בָּטַח bâṭach a primitive root; properly, to hide for refuge (but not so precipitately as H2620 (חָסָה)); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure be bold (confident, sec בַֽיהוָ֖ה Jehovah יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh from H1961 (הָיָה); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה). עֲדֵי against עַד ʻad properly, the same as H5703 (עַד) (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space ־ עַ֑ד eternity עַד ʻad from H5710 (עָדָה); properly, a (peremptory) terminus, i.e. (by implication) duration, in the sense of advance or perpetuity (substantially as a noun, either wi כִּ֚י and כִּי kîy a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widel בְּיָ֣הּ Jah יָהּ Yâhh contraction for H3068 (יְהֹוָה), and meaning the same; Jah, the sacred name Jah, the Lord, most vehement. Compare names in '-iah,' '-jah.' יְהוָ֔ה Jehovah יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh from H1961 (הָיָה); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה). צ֖וּר edge צוּר tsûwr or צֻר; from H6696 (צוּר); properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous) עוֹלָמִֽים alway עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm or עֹלָם; from H5956 (עָלַם); properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequent ׃
Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Functional Faith Reading
The Hebrew here uses the divine name twice in close succession — first YHWH, then the compound Yah YHWH, an intensified form that doubles down on the personal name. The word translated "Rock eternal" is tzur olamim, literally "Rock of the ages" — a geological metaphor for absolute, unshifting permanence. This is not a vague spiritual force; it is a named, specific being whose character is as solid as bedrock.
Most translations smooth over the repetition of the name, rendering it simply "the Lord God" and losing the rhetorical force Isaiah intended. When you flatten the name into a title, you flatten the personality — and with it the relational weight of the command to trust.
The Functional Faith reading hears this as a call directed squarely at the Father himself — Jehovah, the unbegotten source, the One the Pioneer himself trusted completely in Gethsemane and on the wooden pole. When the Pioneer cried out in his darkest hour, he was not crying to himself. He was trusting the same Rock Isaiah points to here. This is what makes his trust followable — he walked the road ahead of us toward the same Father we are invited to trust.
If the Pioneer trusted Jehovah through abandonment and death, then our smaller sufferings are not outside that same shelter. The Rock does not shift when the ground beneath us does.
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What would change in how you face your hardest moment if you trusted the same specific Person the Pioneer trusted in his?
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