2 Samuel 22:2

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me,

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.