1516 verses about Dependence

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.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

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

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

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

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.