Psalm 31:24
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New International Version (©2011)
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD!

English Standard Version (©2001)
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
Be strong and confident, all you who wait on the LORD!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Be strong, and your hearts will be strengthened, all who hope in Lord Jehovah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Be strong, all who wait with hope for the LORD, and let your heart be courageous.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

American King James Version
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

American Standard Version
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All ye that hope in Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.

English Revised Version
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

World English Bible
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh. By David. A contemplative psalm.

Young's Literal Translation
Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:19-24 Instead of yielding to impatience or despondency under our troubles, we should turn our thoughts to the goodness of the Lord towards those who fear and trust in Him. All comes to sinners through the wondrous gift of the only-begotten Son of God, to be the atonement for their sins. Let not any yield to unbelief, or think, under discouraging circumstances, that they are cut off from before the eyes of the Lord, and left to the pride of men. Lord, pardon our complaints and fears; increase our faith, patience, love, and gratitude; teach us to rejoice in tribulation and in hope. The deliverance of Christ, with the destruction of his enemies, ought to strengthen and comfort the hearts of believers under all their afflictions here below, that having suffered courageously with their Master, they may triumphantly enter into his joy and glory.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 24. - Be of good courage (see the comment on Psalm 27:14). And he (i.e. God) shall strengthen your heart. "To those who have it shall be given." If they did their best to "be of good courage" when danger and difficulty assailed them, then God would give them supernatural aid, strengthening their hearts with his gracious favour. All ye that hope in the Lord; literally, all ye that hope for the Lord; i.e. that hope for his help - that wait on him (see Job 14:14; and comp. Psalm 33:18, 22), and look to him as your Deliverer.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,.... See Gill on Psalm 27:14; by this instance of God's wonderful kindness to the psalmist, he would have the saints take heart, and be of good cheer, even in the greatest distresses, since their case cannot be worse than his was; and yet he had deliverance out of it;

all ye that hope in the Lord; for the eye of the Lord is on such, and he takes delight in them, Psalm 33:18. The Targum is, "who hope for", or "trust in the word of the Lord"; the essential Word, the promised Messiah.

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Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
…22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you. 23O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer. 24Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
1 Samuel 30:6 David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Psalm 27:14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.