Psalms 71:7

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

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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.”

They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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

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

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

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

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

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.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

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.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

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.

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.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”

“Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

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

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

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,

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.

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.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

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

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

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

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

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

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

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.

Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.