2 Samuel 22:49

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

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

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

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

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

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

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.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.