Psalms 18:35

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

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

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

“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.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

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

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

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.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

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

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

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.

“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a 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.”

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

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?

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

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

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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.”

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

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.

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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.”

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

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.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.