Psalms 18:32

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

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.

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

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.”

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

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

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

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

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

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

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

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

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

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?

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

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.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

We love him, because he first loved us.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

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

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

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

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

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.

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

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

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.

“ ‘ “Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. They traded for your wares with silver, iron, tin, and lead.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

You will know that I am among Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

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

The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrian men seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and also killed Shophach the captain of the army.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

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.

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

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.