Psalms 31:2

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

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

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

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.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

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.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Give us today our daily bread.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

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 may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

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

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

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.

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

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

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

“Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.” ’

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

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

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

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

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

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.

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

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

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

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

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.

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

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

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

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.”

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

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

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

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.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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.

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.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

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

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

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

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

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

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.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.