²⁰ Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

⁴ You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

⁵ For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁷ For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

⁸ In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

⁸ Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

⁵ For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.

²⁵ For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

¹⁶ And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

⁶ But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

¹⁶ For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

⁷ You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

²² And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

²³ For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

¹ And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

²⁰ You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

⁴ Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.

²³ But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.

¹⁴ I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

¹⁸ And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

⁹ O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.