Psalm 11:1

New American Bible - revised edition

For the leader. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 14:11

And so the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

2 Chronicles 16:8

Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a vast army, with great numbers of chariots and horses? And yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your power.

Nehemiah 6:11

My answer was: “A man like me take flight? Should a man like me enter the temple to save his life? I will not go!”

Psalm 16:1

A miktam of David. Keep me safe, O God; in you I take refuge.

Psalm 25:2

my God, in you I trust; do not let me be disgraced; do not let my enemies gloat over me.

Psalm 31:14

I hear the whispers of the crowd; terrors are all around me. They conspire together against me; they plot to take my life.

Psalm 56:11

I praise the word of God, I praise the word of the Lord.

Psalm 7:1

A plaintive song of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, the Benjaminite.

Psalm 7:2

Lord my God, in you I trusted; save me; rescue me from all who pursue me,

Psalm 9:10

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

Proverbs 6:5

Free yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, or like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, “We are heroes, mighty warriors”?

Luke 13:31

At that time some Pharisees came to him and said, “Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you.”

1 Samuel 19:11

The same night, Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal informed him, “Unless you run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

1 Samuel 20:38

Again he called to the boy, “Hurry, be quick, don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy picked up the arrow and brought it to his master.

1 Samuel 22:3

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Let my father and mother stay with you, until I learn what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 23:14

David now lived in the strongholds in the wilderness, or in the barren hill country near Ziph. Though Saul sought him continually, the Lord did not deliver David into his hand.

1 Samuel 27:1

David said to himself: “I shall perish some day at the hand of Saul. I have no choice but to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up his continual search for me throughout the land of Israel, and I will be out of his reach.”