Psalm 71:3 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

³ Be thou my dwelling-rock, to which I ever may resort: Thou gav'st commandment me to save, for thou'rt my rock and fort.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Be to me a rock of refuge in which to dwell, and a sheltering stronghold to which I may continually resort, which You have appointed to save me, for You are my Rock and my Fortress.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.

Common English Bible

³ Be my rock of refuge where I can always escape. You commanded that my life be saved because you are my rock and my fortress.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

Psalm 71:3 Cross References

Psalm 144:2

My goodness, fortress, my high tow'r, deliverer, and shield, In whom I trust: who under me my people makes to yield.

Psalm 18:2

My fortress is the Lord, My rock, and he that doth to me deliverance afford: My God, my strength, whom I will trust, a buckler unto me, The horn of my salvation, and my high tow'r, is he.

Psalm 18:3

Upon the Lord, who worthy is of praises, will I cry; And then shall I preserved be safe from mine enemy.

Psalm 42:8

His loving-kindness yet the Lord command will in the day, His song's with me by night; to God, by whom I live, I'll pray:

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King: for Jacob, Lord, deliv'rances command.

Psalm 68:28

Thy God commands thy strength; make strong what thou wrought'st for us, Lord.

Psalm 89:27

I'll make him my first-born, more high than kings of any land.

Psalm 90:1

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in generations all.

Psalm 91:9

Because the Lord, who constantly my refuge is alone, Ev'n the most High, is made by thee thy habitation;