3329 verses about Fear

Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.

“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

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

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

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.

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 let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

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

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.

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

“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

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

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

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

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

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

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

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

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

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

So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name; all the kings of the earth your glory.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

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

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

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

He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.