Psalm 71:3 - Revised Version 1885

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.

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

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my strong rock, in him will I trust; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Psalm 18:3

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Psalm 42:8

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.

Psalm 68:28

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Psalm 89:27

I also will make him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalm 90:1

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place In all generations.

Psalm 91:9

For thou, O LORD, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Isaiah 33:16

He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Ezekiel 9:6

slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Deuteronomy 33:27

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.