How I love you, LORD! You are my defender.

The LORD is my protector; he is my strong fortress. My God is my protection, and with him I am safe. He protects me like a shield; he defends me and keeps me safe.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; I will fear no one. The LORD protects me from all danger; I will never be afraid.

The LORD protects his people; he defends and saves his chosen king.

I will praise you, my defender. My refuge is God, the God who loves me.

He alone protects and saves me; he is my defender, and I shall never be defeated.

My salvation and honor depend on God; he is my strong protector; he is my shelter.

The LORD makes me powerful and strong; he has saved me.

Even though the fig trees have no fruit and no grapes grow on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no grain, even though the sheep all die and the cattle stalls are empty,

The Sovereign LORD gives me strength. He makes me sure-footed as a deer and keeps me safe on the mountains.

I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.

Praise him---he is your God, and you have seen with your own eyes the great and astounding things that he has done for you.

But you are enthroned as the Holy One, the one whom Israel praises.

I praise you, God; don't remain silent!

My Sovereign LORD, my strong defender, you have protected me in battle.

and singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Lord God Almighty, how great and wonderful are your deeds! King of the nations, how right and true are your ways!

Moses answered, "Don't be afraid! Stand your ground, and you will see what the LORD will do to save you today; you will never see these Egyptians again.

God gives great victories to his king; he shows constant love to the one he has chosen, to David and his descendants forever.

Our God is a God who saves; he is the LORD, our Lord, who rescues us from death.

God is my savior; I will trust him and not be afraid. The LORD gives me power and strength; he is my savior.

But Israel is saved by the LORD, and her victory lasts forever; her people will never be disgraced.' "

The LORD said to me, "I have a greater task for you, my servant. Not only will you restore to greatness the people of Israel who have survived, but I will also make you a light to the nations--- so that all the world may be saved."

We were not helped at all by our pagan worship on the hilltops. Help for Israel comes only from the LORD our God.

to tell his people that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

With my own eyes I have seen your salvation,

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.

Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us."

After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a large crowd of people in heaven, saying, "Praise God! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God!

Then you must tell him that I, the LORD, say, 'Israel is my first-born son.

"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.

I have relied on you since the day I was born, and you have always been my God.

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God."

Then the cloud covered the Tent and the dazzling light of the LORD's presence filled it.

and if I return safely to my father's home, then you will be my God.

This memorial stone which I have set up will be the place where you are worshiped, and I will give you a tenth of everything you give me."

"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in forever."

"But can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?

until I provide a place for the LORD, a home for the Mighty God of Jacob."

The LORD says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house, then, could you build for me, what kind of place for me to live in?

Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.

In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.

For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity,

Tell the Israelites that I, the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me.

Go and gather the leaders of Israel together and tell them that I, the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to you. Tell them that I have come to them and have seen what the Egyptians are doing to them.

The LORD lives! Praise my defender! Proclaim the greatness of the strong God who saves me!

The LORD lives! Praise my defender! Proclaim the greatness of the God who saves me.

I praise you, LORD, because you have saved me and kept my enemies from gloating over me.

Proclaim with me the LORD's greatness; let us praise his name together!

Praise the LORD our God; worship before his throne! Holy is he!

Praise the LORD our God, and worship at his sacred hill! The LORD our God is holy.

You are my God, and I give you thanks; I will proclaim your greatness.

I will proclaim your greatness, my God and king; I will thank you forever and ever.

LORD, you are my God; I will honor you and praise your name. You have done amazing things; you have faithfully carried out the plans you made long ago.

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.

Again I looked, and I heard angels, thousands and millions of them! They stood around the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders,

And I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, in the world below, and in the sea---all living beings in the universe---and they were singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be praise and honor, glory and might, forever and ever!"