4872 verses about Protection

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

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.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

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.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

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.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

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.”

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

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?”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

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.

Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

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

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.

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.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

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

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

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.

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

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.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.