Psalms 61:2

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:

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

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

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

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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

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

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.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

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

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

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

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.

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.

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.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

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.

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

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

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.

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

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

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.”

if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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

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;

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

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

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

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

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

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

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.

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.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor 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.

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

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

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

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.

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

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

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.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

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

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

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.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

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.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.