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10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
    the righteous run into it and are safe.(A)

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    my God, my rock in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
    my stronghold and my refuge,
    my savior; you save me from violence.(A)

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will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress;
    my God, in whom I trust.”(A)

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Trust in the Lord forever,
    for in the Lord God[a]
    you have an everlasting rock.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.4 Heb in Yah, the Lord

my rock[a] and my fortress,
    my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
    who subdues the peoples[b] under me.(A)

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  1. 144.2 Cn: Heb my steadfast love
  2. 144.2 Q ms Heb mss Syr Aquila Jerome: MT my people

for you are my refuge,
    a strong tower against the enemy.(A)

Let me abide in your tent forever,
    find refuge under the shelter of your wings. Selah(B)

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Psalm 27

Triumphant Song of Confidence

Of David.

The Lord is my light and my salvation;
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold[a] of my life;
    of whom shall I be afraid?(A)

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  1. 27.1 Or refuge

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,
    my God, my rock in whom I take refuge,
    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.(A)

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The Sign of the Covenant

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be blameless.(A)

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  1. 17.1 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.(A)

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23 “Look, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a son,
    and they shall name him Emmanuel,”

which means, “God is with us.”(A)

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when I am afraid,
    I put my trust in you.(A)
In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; I am not afraid;
    what can flesh do to me?(B)

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David was in great danger, for the people spoke of stoning him because all the people were bitter in spirit for their sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.(A)

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For a child has been born for us,
    a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders,
    and he is named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.(A)

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In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”(A)

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14 Those who love me, I will deliver;
    I will protect those who know my name.(A)

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45 Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.(A)
46 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling out[a] of their strongholds.(B)

47 The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,(C)

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  1. 22.46 Meaning of Heb uncertain

19 God, the Lord, is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer
    and makes me tread upon the heights.[a]

To the leader: with stringed[b] instruments.(A)

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  1. 3.19 Heb my heights
  2. 3.19 Heb my stringed

15 For thus says the high and lofty one
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
    and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)

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The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.”[a](A) The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,

“The Lord, the Lord,
a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,(B)
keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[b]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 34.5 Heb YHWH; see note at 3.15
  2. 34.7 Or for thousands

28 Then the man[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[b] for you have striven with God and with humans[c] and have prevailed.”(A) 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.(B)

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  1. 32.28 Heb he
  2. 32.28 That is, the one who strives with God or God strives
  3. 32.28 Or with divine and human beings

51 He is a tower of salvation for his king
    and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
    to David and his descendants forever.”(A)

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The Divine Name Revealed

13 But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”[a] He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”(A) 15 God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[b] the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’:

This is my name forever,
and this my title for all generations.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.14 Or I am what I am or I will be what I will be
  2. 3.15 The word “Lord” when spelled with capital letters stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, “to be”

11 Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children.(A)

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I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty,[a] but by my name ‘The Lord[b] I did not make myself known to them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.3 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
  2. 6.3 Heb YHWH; see note at 3.15