All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.

He said, “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,

and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beer-sheba.

Hazael asked, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set their fortresses on fire; you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women.”

He made the fortresses strong and put commanders in them and stores of food, oil, and wine.

Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.

and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me.

And they captured fortress cities and a rich land and took possession of houses filled with all sorts of goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

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.

Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me.

You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name’s sake lead me and guide me;

O my strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress.

But I will sing of your might; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been a fortress for me and a refuge in the day of my distress.

O my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.

Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

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

my rock and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues the peoples under me.

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the people of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle concerning Tyre

The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed. When they came in from Cyprus they learned of it.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the fortress of the sea, saying: “I have neither labored nor given birth; I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women.”

He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan, to destroy its fortresses.

Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed.