Psalms 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
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ASV
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 18:1-2 (PS 46) (379)
Do not flee what you do not need to flee, and do not have recourse to him to whom it is unnecessary. But one thing you must flee: sin; and one refuge from evil must be sought: God. Do not trust in princes; do not be exalted in the uncertainty of wealth; do not be proud of bodily strength; do not pursue the splendor of human glory. None of these things saves you; all are transient, all are deceptive. There is one refuge, God.… God is the true aid for the righteous.
He is a help, to do all that for us which we need, a present help, a help found (so the word is), one whom we have found to be so, a help on which we may write Probatum est--It is tried, as Christ is called a tried stone, Isa. xxviii.
God is our refuge and strength. Not our armies, or our fortresses. Israel's boast is in Jehovah, the only living and true God. Others vaunt their impregnable castles, placed on inaccessible rocks, and secured with gates of iron, but God is a far better refuge from distress than all these: and when the time comes to carry the war into the enemy's territories, the Lord stands his people in better stead than all the valour of legions or the boasted strength of chariot and horse.
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Psalms 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
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Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
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Proverbs 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
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My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.
Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
For You have been my refuge, a tower of strength against the enemy.
