Translations
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
YHWH-Tzvaot is with us; the Elohim of Yaakov is our high fortress. Selah
Yahweh of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah
The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Footnotes
The verbatim repetition of v. 7 forms a deliberate literary bracket (inclusio) around the central stanza of divine action (vv. 8–10). The psalm ends where it pivots—not on the devastations, not on the disarmament, but on the irreducible promise: He is with us. The Hebrew immanu ('with us') carries the full weight of covenant presence—the same root as Immanu-El ('Godis with us'), the name deployed by Isaiah in precisely this register of national crisis and divine comfort (Isa. 7:14; 8:10), and ultimately embodied in Jesus Himself.

