Psalms 144:2

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

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

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

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

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.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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.”

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.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

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

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

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

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

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

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.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

“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.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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,

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

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

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

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.

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

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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.

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

Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”

For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

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.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

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.