1516 verses about Dependence

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

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

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.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

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

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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

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

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

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

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

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

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

Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

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

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

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

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

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

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

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

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

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

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

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

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

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

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

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

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.