Psalms 64:1

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.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

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.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

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.”

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

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

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

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

“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.

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

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

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.”

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

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.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

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

Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

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

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.” ’ ”

Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

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

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

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

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’