Luke 1:69

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

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

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

and I will give him the morning star.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

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.”

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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.

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.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

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.

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.

For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

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.”

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.

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.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

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

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

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

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

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

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

In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak, and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

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.

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.

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

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.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

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

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.