Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.}\par
Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, {\b I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.}So that with good courage we say,\par\tab {\b The Lord is my helper; I will not fear:\par\tab What shall man do unto me?}\par
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,\par\tab I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;\par\tab Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
{\b For the Chief Musician. {\i A Psalm} of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.}\par\par\tab God is our refuge and strength,\par\tab A very present help in trouble.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\par
For Jehovah will not cast off his people,\par\tab Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Jehovah will keep thee from all evil;\par\tab He will keep thy soul.Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in\par\tab From this time forth and for evermore.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;\par\tab For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.}\par
{\i we are} pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee:\par\tab He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Nevertheless I am continually with thee:\par\tab Thou hast holden my right hand.Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel,\par\tab And afterward receive me to glory.
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.\par
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.\par
Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,\par\tab And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
{\b For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab My soul waiteth in silence for God only:\par\tab From him {\i cometh} my salvation.He only is my rock and my salvation:\par\tab {\i He is} my high tower;\par\tab I shall not be greatly moved.
Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart,\par\tab And lean not upon thine own understanding:In all thy ways acknowledge him,\par\tab And he will direct thy paths.
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?\par\tab Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:\par\tab If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.If I take the wings of the morning,\par\tab And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;Even there shall thy hand lead me,\par\tab And thy right hand shall hold me.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
For I, Jehovah thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:\par\tab I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Thou wilt keep {\i him} in perfect peace, {\i whose} mind {\i is} stayed {\i on thee}; because he trusteth in thee.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
{\b A Song of Ascents.}\par\par\tab I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains:\par\tab From whence shall my help come?My help {\i cometh} from Jehovah,\par\tab Who made heaven and earth.
The name of Jehovah is a strong tower;\par\tab The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.In God (I will praise his word),\par\tab In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;\par\tab What can flesh do unto me?
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, {\i even} Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.
{\b {\i A Psalm} of David.}\par\par\tab Jehovah is my light and my salvation;\par\tab Whom shall I fear?\par\tab Jehovah is the strength of my life;\par\tab Of whom shall I be afraid?
I have set Jehovah always before me:\par\tab Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,unto him {\i be} the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.\par
{\b A Song of Ascents.}\par\par\tab They that trust in Jehovah\par\tab Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,\par\tab So Jehovah is round about his people\par\tab From this time forth and for evermore.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High\par\tab Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;\par\tab My God, in whom I trust.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help {\i us} in time of need.\par
O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
And he hath said unto me, {\cf6 My grace is sufficient for thee: for {\i my} power is made perfect in weakness.} Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.\par
For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him,\par\tab To all that call upon him in truth.He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him;\par\tab He also will hear their cry and will save them.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:\par\tab I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.He shall call upon me, and I will answer him;\par\tab I will be with him in trouble:\par\tab I will deliver him, and honor him.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
The fear of man bringeth a snare;\par\tab But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, {\i even} to them that are called according to {\i his} purpose.
Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,\par\tab A high tower in times of trouble;
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed:\par\tab Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.For thou hast been a refuge for me,\par\tab A strong tower from the enemy.
The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous,\par\tab And his ears are {\i open} unto their cry.
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and {\i such} we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge!\par\tab Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;There shall no evil befall thee,\par\tab Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.For he will give his angels charge over thee,\par\tab To keep thee in all thy ways.
But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.\par
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me;\par\tab Thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of mine enemies,\par\tab And thy right hand will save me.Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me:\par\tab Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, {\i endureth} for ever;\par\tab Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah:\par\tab He is our help and our shield.For our heart shall rejoice in him,\par\tab Because we have trusted in his holy name.
For thou hast been my help,\par\tab And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.My soul followeth hard after thee:\par\tab Thy right hand upholdeth me.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed; for Jehovah God, even my God, is with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah be finished.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and {\b ye shall find rest unto your souls.}For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.}\par
When I said, My foot slippeth;\par\tab Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.In the multitude of my thoughts within me\par\tab Thy comforts delight my soul.
For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:
For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield:\par\tab Jehovah will give grace and glory;\par\tab No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble;\par\tab Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. {\i Selah
I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life;\par\tab And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever.\par
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden,\par\tab Even the God who is our salvation. {\i SelahGod is unto us a God of deliverances;\par\tab And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence;\par\tab And his children shall have a place of refuge.
and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.That which my Father hath given unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch {\i them} out of the Father's hand.
The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with {\i him}, that we may be also glorified with {\i him}.\par
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:\par\tab This I know, that God is for me.
They help every one his neighbor; and {\i every one} saith to his brother, Be of good courage.
Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous;\par\tab Yea, our God is merciful.Jehovah preserveth the simple:\par\tab I was brought low, and he saved me.
Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, {\i even} our Lord Jesus,make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom {\i be} the glory for ever and ever. Amen.\par
who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known {\i me}.Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;\par\tab Thou understandest my thought afar off.Thou searchest out my path and my lying down,\par\tab And art acquainted with all my ways.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.\par
In the day that I called thou answeredst me,\par\tab Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.
And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for {\i us} with groanings which cannot be uttered;
For this God is our God for ever and ever:\par\tab He will be our guide {\i even} unto death.\par
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:\par\tab Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice,\par\tab Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them:\par\tab Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.For thou wilt bless the righteous;\par\tab O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.\par
And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
My lovingkindness, and my fortress,\par\tab My high tower, and my deliverer;\par\tab My shield, and he in whom I take refuge;\par\tab Who subdueth my people under me.
Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.\par
All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of {\i God's} own possession, unto the praise of his glory.\par
And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
With whom my hand shall be established;\par\tab Mine arm also shall strengthen him.The enemy shall not exact from him,\par\tab Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.\par
For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;\par\tab That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;\par\tab My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge;\par\tab My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
They shall bear thee up in their hands,\par\tab Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:\par\tab The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him,\par\tab Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;To deliver their soul from death,\par\tab And to keep them alive in famine.
Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants;\par\tab And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.\par
who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me,even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble,\par\tab And he bringeth them out of their distresses.He maketh the storm a calm,\par\tab So that the waves thereof are still.Then are they glad because they are quiet;\par\tab So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
My soul, wait thou in silence for God only;\par\tab For my expectation is from him.He only is my rock and my salvation:\par\tab {\i He is} my high tower;\par\tab I shall not be moved.
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also {\i do} toward you;to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.\par
But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,\par\tab And his righteousness unto children's children;To such as keep his covenant,\par\tab And to those that remember his precepts to do them.
Into thy hand I commend my spirit:\par\tab Thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah, thou God of truth.
{\b A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.}\par\par\tab O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee:\par\tab My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee,\par\tab In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:which we have as an anchor of the soul, {\i a hope} both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me:\par\tab Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, {\i endureth} for ever;\par\tab Forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Whom have I in heaven {\i but thee}?\par\tab And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.My flesh and my heart faileth;\par\tab {\i But} God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For he shall never be moved;\par\tab The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.He shall not be afraid of evil tidings:\par\tab His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.
For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,\par\tab And from the deadly pestilence.He will cover thee with his pinions,\par\tab And under his wings shalt thou take refuge:\par\tab His truth is a shield and a buckler.
For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for {\i God's} own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid,\par\tab Until he see {\i his desire} upon his adversaries.
And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work: