1516 verses about Dependence

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.

Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

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

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

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

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits;

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

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

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

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

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

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

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

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

Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

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

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.