Psalms 31:20

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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;

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.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

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

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

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

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

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

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

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

and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

“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.” ’

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,