Psalms 18:2

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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

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.

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

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

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.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

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.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

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

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

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

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.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

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

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

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.

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

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

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

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.

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

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.”

As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

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.

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

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.”

It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

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

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

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

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

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

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

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

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says 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.”

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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.

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?”

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

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

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

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

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

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

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

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

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

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