28 (A)The wicked flee when no one pursues,
    but (B)the righteous are bold as a lion.

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“The Lord (A)will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

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There they are, in great terror,
    (A)where there is no terror!
For God (B)scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
    you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

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(A)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

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The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation

Of David.

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

When evildoers assail me
    to (D)eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
    it is they who stumble and fall.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:1 Or refuge

He is not (A)afraid of bad news;
    his (B)heart is firm, (C)trusting in the Lord.

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But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated (A)at Philippi, as you know, (B)we had boldness in our God (C)to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much (D)conflict.

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10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where (A)he had windows in his upper chamber open (B)toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees (C)three times a day and prayed and (D)gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. 11 Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God.

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13 (A)Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for (A)the Lord, who bore witness to (B)the word of his grace, (C)granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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16 (A)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, (B)our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.[a] 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 3:17 Or If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, he will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you (A)a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.

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Therefore we will not fear (A)though the earth gives way,
    though the mountains be moved into (B)the heart of the sea,
though (C)its waters roar and foam,
    though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

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For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians (A)hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us (B)the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.” (C)So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.

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36 And as for those of you who are left, (A)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (B)sound of a (C)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (B)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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15 So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

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And (A)all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

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When the house of David was told, (A)“Syria is in league with[a] (B)Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz[b] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:2 Hebrew Syria has rested upon
  2. Isaiah 7:2 Hebrew his heart

17 I will (A)set my face against you, and (B)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (C)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (D)you shall flee when none pursues you.

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