Nahum 1:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, a refuge on the day of distress, Taking care of those who look to him for protection,

Cross References

2 Timothy 2:19

Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands, bearing this inscription, “The Lord knows those who are his”; and, “Let everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord avoid evil.”

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Lamentations 3:25

The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one that seeks him;

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

Psalm 100:5

good indeed is the Lord, His mercy endures forever, his faithfulness lasts through every generation.

Psalm 27:5

For God will hide me in his shelter in time of trouble, He will conceal me in the cover of his tent; and set me high upon a rock.

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the just run to it and are safe.

Psalm 1:6

Because the Lord knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Galatians 4:9

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?

Isaiah 25:4

For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress; Shelter from the rain, shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rain,

1 Chronicles 16:34

Give thanks to the Lord, who is good, whose love endures forever;

Jeremiah 33:11

the song of joy, the song of gladness, the song of the bridegroom, the song of the bride, the song of those bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good; God’s love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of this land as they were in the beginning, says the Lord.

Psalm 86:7

On the day of my distress I call to you, for you will answer me.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.

Psalm 25:8

Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he shows sinners the way,

Daniel 3:28

You have executed proper judgments in all that you have brought upon us and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our ancestors. By a proper judgment you have done all this because of our sins;

Psalm 71:3

Be my rock of refuge, my stronghold to give me safety; for you are my rock and fortress.

Psalm 91:15

He will call upon me and I will answer; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honor.

Psalm 59:16

They roam about as scavengers; if they are not filled, they howl.

Psalm 50:15

Then call on me on the day of distress; I will rescue you, and you shall honor me.”

Daniel 6:23

My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me. For I have been found innocent before him; neither have I done you any harm, O king!”

Romans 11:22

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

2 Chronicles 32:21

Then the Lord sent an angel, who destroyed every warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the Assyrian king, so that he had to return shamefaced to his own country. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down there with the sword.

Matthew 27:43

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Matthew 7:23

Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’ The Two Foundations.

Ezra 3:11

They alternated in songs of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, “for he is good, for his love for Israel endures forever”; and all the people raised a great shout of joy, praising the Lord because the foundation of the Lord’s house had been laid.

2 Chronicles 32:11

Is not Hezekiah deceiving you, delivering you over to a death of famine and thirst, by his claim that ‘the Lord, our God, will rescue us from the grasp of the king of Assyria’?

2 Chronicles 32:8

He has only an arm of flesh, but we have the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah. Threat of Sennacherib.

1 Chronicles 5:20

they received help so that the Hagrites and all who were with them were delivered into their power. For during the battle they cried out to God, and he heard them because they had put their trust in him.

Psalm 20:1

For the leader. A psalm of David.

Psalm 37:39

The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord, their refuge in a time of distress.

Psalm 37:40

The Lord helps and rescues them, rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in him.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Jeremiah 17:17

Do not become a terror to me, you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

Jeremiah 24:5

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, I will also regard with favor Judah’s exiles whom I sent away from this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

Zephaniah 3:12

But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord—

2 Chronicles 13:18

The Israelites were humbled on that occasion, while the Judahites were victorious because they relied on the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Psalm 9:10

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Psalm 46:2

God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord, heeds his servant’s voice? Whoever walk in darkness, without any light, Yet trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon their God!