Psalms 124:7

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

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

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

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?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

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,

You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

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

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.