Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

And the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.

And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

Then said David, O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.

He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.

Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.