2 Samuel 22:51

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.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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.”

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

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 Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

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

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

My salvation and my honor is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

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.”

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

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.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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.”

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

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

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

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

Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!

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.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

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

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

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.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

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

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

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

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

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

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.

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

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.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

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.

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

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

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

Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”