Psalm 56:4–5 God, whose word I praise,
God I trust; I do not fear.
What can mere flesh do to me?
5 All day they twist my words;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalm 57:1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
because in you my soul takes refuge.
In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge
until destruction passes by.
Psalm 91:4 With his feathers he will cover you,
and under his wings you can take refuge.
His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler.
Psalm 57:6 They have set a net for my steps;
my soul is bowed down.
They have dug a pit before me;
they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
Psalm 57:3 He will send from heaven and save me;
he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah
God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.
Psalm 58:6–8 O God, break their teeth in their mouth.
Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
7 Let them run away like water that runs off.
When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.
8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes;
like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
Psalm 3:7 Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God;
for you strike all my enemies on the cheek.
The teeth of the wicked you break.
Psalm 58:10–11 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And people will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous.
Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”
Psalm 59:13 Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more,
so that they may know that God is ruling in Jacob
to the ends of the earth. Selah
Psalm 59:16–17 But as for me, I will sing of your strength,
and I will hail your loyal love in the morning,
because you have been my high stronghold
and a refuge in my time of trouble.
17 O my strength, to you I will give praise,
because God is my high stronghold,
my God of loyal love.
Psalm 60:1–5 O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us.
You have been angry. Restore us!
2 You have made the land quake. You have split it open.
Heal its fissures, because it totters.
3 You have shown your people hard things;
You have given us wine that staggers.
4 You have rallied those who fear you round a banner
out of bowshot, Selah
5 so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
Save by your right hand and answer us.
Psalm 60:10–12 Have not you yourself rejected us, O God,
and not gone out with our armies, O God?
11 Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of humankind is futile.
12 Through God we will do valiantly,
and it is he who will tread down our enemies.
Psalm 89:39 You have repudiated the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dirt.
Psalm 60:5–12 so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
Save by your right hand and answer us.
6 God has spoken in his holiness,
“I will rejoice;
I will divide up Shechem,
and portion out the valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine,
and Ephraim is the helmet for my head;
Judah is my scepter.
8 Moab is my washing pot;
over Edom, I will cast my sandal.
On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout.”
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have not you yourself rejected us, O God,
and not gone out with our armies, O God?
11 Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of humankind is futile.
12 Through God we will do valiantly,
and it is he who will tread down our enemies.
Psalm 108:6–13 so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
Save by your right hand and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness,
“I will exult, I will divide up Shechem,
and portion out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.
And Ephraim is the helmet for my head.
Judah is my scepter;
9 Moab is my washing pot.
Over Edom I will cast my sandal;
Over Philistia I will shout in triumph.”
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rejected us, O God,
and not gone out with our armies, O God?
12 Give us help against the enemy,
for the help of humankind is futile.
13 Through God we will do valiantly,
and it is he who will tread down our enemies.
Psalm 61:4 Let me reside in your tent forever.
Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah
Psalm 60:6 God has spoken in his holiness,
“I will rejoice;
I will divide up Shechem,
and portion out the valley of Succoth.
Psalm 61:4 Let me reside in your tent forever.
Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah
Psalm 57:1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
because in you my soul takes refuge.
In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge
until destruction passes by.
Psalm 91:4 With his feathers he will cover you,
and under his wings you can take refuge.
His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler.
Psalm 61:6–7 You will add days to the days of the king,
his years like those of many generations.
7 May he live forever in the presence of God.
Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.
2 Samuel 7:12–16 When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of human beings. 15 But my loyal love shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
Psalm 62:1–2 Only for God my soul waits in silence.
From him is my salvation.
2 Only he is my rock and my salvation,
my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 62:5–6 Only for God wait in silence, O my soul,
because my hope is from him.
6 Only he is my rock and my salvation,
my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken.
Psalm 62:3–8 How long will you attack a man?
All of you will be shattered
like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.
4 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position;
they are pleased with deception.
With their mouths they bless,
but inwardly they curse. Selah
5 Only for God wait in silence, O my soul,
because my hope is from him.
6 Only he is my rock and my salvation,
my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken.
7 On God rests my salvation and my glory;
God is my strong rock, my refuge.
8 Trust him at all times, O people;
pour out before him your heart.
God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psalm 62:7–8 On God rests my salvation and my glory;
God is my strong rock, my refuge.
8 Trust him at all times, O people;
pour out before him your heart.
God is a refuge for us. Selah
Psalm 62:12 And to you belongs loyal love, O Lord,
because you will render to each according to his work.
Psalm 63:1–5 O God, you are my God;
I will seek you diligently.
My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you
as in a dry and weary land without water.
2 Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary,
beholding your strength and glory.
3 Because your loyal love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you while I live.
I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food,
and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.
Psalm 42:4 These I remember and I pour out my soul within me:
that I would go with the multitude;
I led them in procession to the house of God,
with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving,
a crowd celebrating a festival.
Psalm 63:7 Because you have been my help,
therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
Psalm 63:10–11 They who would deliver him to the sword
will become a portion for jackals.
11 However, the king will rejoice in God.
Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast,
because the mouth of the liars will be stopped.
Psalm 61:4 Let me reside in your tent forever.
Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah
Psalm 64:2–8 Hide me from the secret plots of evildoers,
from the unrest of those who do iniquity,
3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword.
They bend their bow to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
4 to shoot from their hiding places at the blameless.
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.
5 They encourage themselves in the evil matter.
They talk of secretly laying snares.
They say, “Who will see them?”
6 They carefully plot injustices saying,
“We have perfected the perfect plot!”
Both the inner thought and heart of a man are deep.
7 But God will shoot them;
with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.
8 And they who would cause him to stumble,
their own tongue will be against them.
All who gaze on them will shake.
Psalm 64:10 The righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him,
and all the upright in heart will boast.
Psalm 72:20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are completed.
Psalm 65:4 Blessed is one whom you choose and bring near,
that he may abide in your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
your holy temple.
Psalm 66:1–8 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.
2 Sing the glory of his name.
Set forth his glorious praise.
3 Say to God, “How awesome are your works!
Because of the greatness of your strength,
your enemies will cringe before you.
4 All the earth will bow in worship to you,
and sing praise to you.
They will sing the praise of your name.” Selah
5 Come and consider the works of God;
he is awesome in his dealings with the children of humankind.
6 He turned the sea into dry ground;
they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him.
7 He rules by his might forever;
his eyes keep watch on the nations.
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
8 Bless our God, O peoples,
and cause the sound of his praise to be heard,
Psalm 66:10–15 For you have tested us, O God;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
11 You brought us into the net;
you placed a heavy burden on our backs.
12 You let men ride over our heads.
We went through fire and through water,
but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.
13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings.
I will pay to you my vows
14 that my lips uttered,
and my mouth spoke in my distress.
15 Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you,
with the smoke of rams.
I will do cattle with rams. Selah
Psalm 66:16–20 Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell
what he has done for me.
17 I called to him with my mouth,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I had considered evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
19 However, God has listened;
he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God,
who has not turned aside my prayer,
or his loyal love from me.
Numbers 6:24–26 Yahweh will bless you
and keep you;
25 Yahweh will make shine his face on you
and be gracious to you;
26 Yahweh will lift up his face upon you,
and he will give you peace.’
Psalm 67:2–5 that your way may be known on the earth,
your salvation among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all of the peoples praise you.
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
because you judge the peoples with equity
and guide the nations on the earth. Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you.
Psalm 68:1–3 God will arise; his enemies will be scattered,
and those who hate him will flee from before him.
2 As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off.
As wax melts before fire,
the wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God,
and will rejoice with joy.
Psalm 1:5–6 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 68:15–16 A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
16 Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains?
This mountain God desires for his dwelling.
Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.
Psalm 68:7–8 O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the desert, Selah
8 the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain
at the presence of God who was at Sinai,
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Judges 5:4–5 Yahweh, when you went down from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled, the heavens poured down,
the clouds poured down water.
5 The mountains trembled before Yahweh,
this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Exodus 22:22–24 “ ‘You will not afflict any widow or orphan. 23 If you indeed afflict him, yes, if he cries out at all to me, I will certainly hear his cry of distress. 24 And I will become angry, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans.
Psalm 68:24–31 They have seen your processions, O God,
the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory.
25 Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last,
between them young women playing tambourines.
26 Bless God in the assemblies,
Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin ruling them,
with the princes of Judah in their throng,
the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength.
Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us.
29 Because your temple is above Jerusalem,
kings will bring tribute to you.
30 Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
trampling the pieces of silver.
Scatter the nations who delight in battles.
31 Ambassadors will come from Egypt;
Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
Psalm 68:28 Your God has commanded your strength.
Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us.
Psalm 68:33–35 to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old.
See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
35 Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary.
The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people.
Blessed be God.
Psalm 69:22–28 Let their table before them be a trap,
and their times of peace a snare.
23 Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see,
and make their loins continually tremble.
24 Pour out your indignation on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 Let their camp be desolate.
Let none dwell in their tents,
26 because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck,
and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.
27 Add guilt on top of their guilt,
and do not let them be acquitted.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,
and let them not be recorded with the righteous.
Psalm 69:32–33 The afflicted will see and rejoice.
O God seekers, let your heart revive,
33 because Yahweh hears the needy
and does not despise his own who are prisoners.
Psalm 40:13–17 Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me.
O Yahweh, hurry to help me.
14 Let them be shamed and abashed altogether
who seek to take away my life.
Let them be repulsed and humiliated
who desire my harm.
15 Let them be appalled because of their shame,
those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
16 Let them rejoice and be glad in you,
all those who seek you.
Let them say continually, “Yahweh is great!”
—those who love your salvation.
17 But I am poor and needy.
Let my Lord consider me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
O my God, do not delay.
Psalm 71:6 Upon you I have leaned from birth.
It was you who took me from the womb of my mother.
My praise is of you continually.
Psalm 139:13–15 Indeed you created my inward parts;
you wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works,
and my soul knows it well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was created secretly,
and intricately woven
in the depths of the earth.
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 71:24 My tongue also
will speak of your righteousness all the day,
because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated
who seek my harm.
Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your presence,
O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.
Psalm 72:7 May what is right blossom in his days
and an abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
Psalm 72:17 May his name endure forever.
May his name increase as long as the sun shines,
and let them be blessed in him.
Let all nations call him blessed.
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
Deuteronomy 17:14–18 “When you have come to that land that Yahweh your God is giving to you and you have taken possession of it and you have settled in it, and you say, ‘I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymen you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who is not your countryman. 16 Except, he may not make numerous for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to to go to Egypt in order to increase horses, for Yahweh has said to you that you may never return. 17 And he must not acquire many wives for himself, so that his heart would turn aside; and he must not accumulate silver and gold for himself excessively.
18 “And then when he is sitting on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll before the Levitical priests.