Deuteronomy 33:25
Good News Translation
May his towns be protected with iron gates, And may he always live secure."

New Revised Standard Version
Your bars are iron and bronze; and as your days, so is your strength.

Contemporary English Version
and have strong town gates with bronze and iron bolts. Your people will be powerful for as long as they live.

New American Bible
May the bolts of your gates be iron and bronze; may your strength endure through all your days!

Douay-Rheims Bible
His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

Thy shoes, etc.

Deuteronomy 8:9 Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass:

Luke 15:22 And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

and as thy

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength to those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise against thee.

Psalm 138:3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.

Isaiah 40:29 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

1 Corinthians 10:13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

Context
Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes
24To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.26There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:20
Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.

Deuteronomy 4:40
Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 32:47
For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

Psalm 147:13
Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee.

Deuteronomy 33:24
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