Psalm 18:2

The Passion Translation

Yahweh, you’re the bedrock beneath my feet, my faith-fortress, my wonderful deliverer, my God, my rock of rescue where none can reach me. You’re the shield around me, the mighty power that saves me, and my high place.

Cross References

Psalm 116:1

I am passionately in love with God because he listens to me. He hears my prayers and answers them.

Psalm 132:17

I will increase the anointing that was upon David, and my glistening glory will rest upon my anointed one.

Psalm 144:2

He’s my shelter of love and my fortress of faith, who wraps himself around me as a secure shield. I hide myself in this one who subdues enemies before me.

Psalm 19:14

So may the words of my mouth, my meditation-thoughts, and every movement of my heart be always pure and pleasing, acceptable before your eyes, Yahweh, my only Redeemer, my Protector.

Psalm 28:1

I’m pleading with you, Yahweh, help me! Don’t close your ears to my cry, for you’re my defender. If you continue to remain aloof and refuse to answer me, I might as well give up and die.

Psalm 59:11

Don’t kill them; stagger them all with a vivid display of power and scatter them with your armies of angels, O mighty God, our protector! Use your awesome power to make them wanderers and vagabonds and then bring them down.

Psalm 62:2

He alone is my safe place; his wraparound presence always protects me. For he is my champion defender; there’s no risk of failure with God. So why would I let worry paralyze me, even when troubles multiply around me?

Psalm 62:7

God’s glory is all around me! His wraparound presence is all I need, for the Lord is my Savior, my hero, and my life-giving strength.

Psalm 75:10

My praises will break the powers of wickedness, while the righteous will be promoted and become powerful!

Psalm 91:2

He’s the hope that holds me and the stronghold to shelter me, the only God for me, and my great confidence.

Psalm 91:4

His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you. You can run under his covering of majesty and hide. His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.

Proverbs 18:10

The character of God is a tower of strength, for the lovers of God delight to run into his heart and be exalted on high.

Proverbs 2:7

For the Lord has a hidden storehouse of wisdom made accessible to his godly ones. He becomes your personal bodyguard as you follow his ways, protecting and guarding you as you choose what is right.

Isaiah 32:2

A man will be a hiding place from the stormy wind and a secret shelter from the tempest. Life will flow from each one, like streams of water in the desert, like the refreshing shade of a massive rock in a weary, thirsty land.

Jeremiah 16:19

Yahweh, you are my strength and my stronghold, my sanctuary in a time of trouble. Nations will stream toward you from the ends of the earth and say: “The gods of our ancestors are nothing but frauds, worthless idols that could do nothing for them.

Hebrews 2:13

And, “My confidence rests in God!” And again he says, “Here I am, one with the children Yahweh has given me.”