¹⁷ You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

¹⁸ And not a hair of your head will perish.

¹⁹ By your endurance you will win your lives.

²⁰ "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for safety, Neither does he deliver any by his great power.

¹⁸ Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, On those who hope in his loving kindness;

¹⁹ To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

²² and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

³ But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

¹⁷ There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

¹⁸ I will clothe his enemies with shame, But on himself, his crown will be resplendant."

³¹ The horse is prepared for the day of battle; But victory is with Yahweh.

⁸ Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.

¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

²¹ How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.

⁶ Righteousness guards the way of integrity, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.

² He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.

³ But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, My glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

⁹ Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; A high tower in times of trouble.

²² Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

¹¹ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

⁸ and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

¹ > Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.

¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

¹¹ Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

¹ > Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, Who teaches my hands to war, And my fingers to battle:

² 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.

³ Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

¹⁰ The name of Yahweh is a strong tower: The righteous run to him, and are safe.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.

¹⁵ I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

¹⁰ You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

¹⁸ We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

⁸ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in man.

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

⁸ For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

⁹ Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

¹⁶ You open your hand, And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁶ So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹¹ I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

¹ > Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

¹¹ But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

¹² For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

¹⁰ You are he who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, For the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

⁹ You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

¹¹ I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Hosts.

¹ > Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

⁶ For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁷ He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

⁸ That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.

⁷ For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

⁸ Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

⁹ You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

¹⁰ You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.

¹ > God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

²⁵ The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, But the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

⁴ Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: To Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

⁶ God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, But the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

¹ > I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

² My help comes from Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

⁶ The sun will not harm you by day, Nor the moon by night.

⁷ Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

⁸ Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

²² Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

⁵ "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.

¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

¹³ Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

⁸ I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

²⁹ now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.

⁵ As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].

¹⁷ Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow."

³² For who is God, save Yahweh? Who is a rock, save our God?

⁷ Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

⁸ In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, For you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

⁴ He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁸ Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

³ Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

¹ > Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

² Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

³ But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, My glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

⁴ I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

⁵ I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

⁶ I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people Who have set themselves against me on every side.

⁷ Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

²⁶ I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

¹ > Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

³ You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.

³³ But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

³⁵ You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

³⁶ You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

³⁷ I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

⁶ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

¹⁴ This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

¹⁶ If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.

¹⁹ My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

⁶ Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

⁶ I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

⁷ Show your marvelous loving kindness, You who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of your eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

⁹ From the wicked who oppress me, My deadly enemies, who surround me.

¹⁰ They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

⁸ Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

⁹ Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

¹⁰ Yahweh will reign forever; Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!

¹ > May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

² Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion,

³ Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.

²⁶ For Yahweh will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being taken.

²⁰ Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.

²² Redeem Israel, God, Out all of his troubles.

⁶ Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷ Return to your rest, my soul, For Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.

⁹ I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."

⁷ Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, Unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

¹¹⁴ You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

⁹ He who walks blamelessly walks surely, But he who perverts his ways will be found out.

¹² A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it:

³⁵ He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."

³ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

¹² For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

¹⁴ Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Gospel should live from the Gospel.

²⁶ In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, And he will be a refuge for his children.

²² All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

⁷ The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him, And delivers them.

²⁰ Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

⁷ You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

¹⁶ 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.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

⁶ so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

²⁵ For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

²⁹ "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion{An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor).}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

³⁰ but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹ Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

³² Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

¹⁰ I am Yahweh, your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

⁹ Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, And the Most High your dwelling place,

¹⁰ No evil shall happen to you, Neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

¹¹ For he will give his angels charge over you, To guard you in all your ways.

⁴ and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?