Psalm 31:2
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2 Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me.(A)
Psalm 71:2-3
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2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me.(A)
3 Be to me a rock of refuge,
a strong fortress[a] to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.(B)
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- 71.3 Gk: Heb to come continually you have commanded
Psalm 102:2
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2 Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call.(A)
Psalm 86:1
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Psalm 86
Supplication for Help against Enemies
A Prayer of David.
1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:31
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- 32.31 Gk: Heb judges
1 John 4:15-16
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15 God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God.(A) 16 So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
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1 John 4:12
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12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.(A)
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John 6:56
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56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.(A)
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Luke 18:8
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8 I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
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Isaiah 33:16
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16 they will live on the heights;
their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks;
their food will be supplied, their water assured.
Proverbs 22:17
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Sayings of the Wise
17 The words of the wise:
Incline your ear and hear my words[a]
and apply your mind to my teaching,
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- 22.17 Cn Compare Gk: Heb Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise
Psalm 143:7
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7 Answer me quickly, O Lord;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me,
or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.(A)
Psalm 130:2
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2 Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my supplications!(A)
Psalm 94:22
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22 But the Lord has become my stronghold
and my God the rock of my refuge.(A)
Psalm 91:9
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9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge,[a]
the Most High your dwelling place,
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- 91.9 Cn: Heb Because you, Lord, are my refuge; you have made
Psalm 90:1
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Book IV
(Psalms 90–106)
Psalm 90
God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
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- 90.1 Or our refuge
Psalm 79:1
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Psalm 79
Plea for Mercy for Jerusalem
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.(A)
Psalm 69:17
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17 Do not hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.(A)
Psalm 40:17
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17 As for me, I am poor and needy,
but the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not delay, O my God.(A)
Psalm 18:1-2
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Psalm 18
Royal Thanksgiving for Victory
To the leader. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1 I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 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)
Job 7:21
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(A)
2 Samuel 22:3
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3 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)
Psalm 62:7
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7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.(A)
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