Be My Rock of Refuge 1 AKJV In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. BSB BSB: In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.
2 AKJV Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me. BSB BSB: In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
3 AKJV Be you my strong habitation, where I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress. BSB BSB: Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
4 AKJV Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. BSB BSB: Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.
5 AKJV For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth. BSB BSB: For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
6 AKJV By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you. BSB BSB: I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
7 AKJV I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge. BSB BSB: I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge.
8 AKJV Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day. BSB BSB: My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.
9 AKJV Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. BSB BSB: Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
10 AKJV For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, BSB BSB: For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,
11 AKJV Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. BSB BSB: saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
12 AKJV O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. BSB BSB: Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
13 AKJV Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt. BSB BSB: May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
14 AKJV But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more. BSB BSB: But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
15 AKJV My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. BSB BSB: My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
16 AKJV I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only. BSB BSB: I will come in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.
17 AKJV O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works. BSB BSB: O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
18 AKJV Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come. BSB BSB: Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
19 AKJV Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you! BSB BSB: Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
20 AKJV You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth. BSB BSB: Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
21 AKJV You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. BSB BSB: You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.
22 AKJV I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel. BSB BSB: So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
23 AKJV My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed. BSB BSB: When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.
24 AKJV My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt. BSB BSB: My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.
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