Incline Your ear to me; make haste to rescue me; be to me my protecting God, and a fortress of defense to save me.

For You are my strength and my refuge; and You shall guide me for Your name's sake, and maintain me.

Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.

He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him.

The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.

He shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock; bread shall be given to him, and his water shall be sure.

You are indeed my King and my God, who commanded deliverance for Jacob.

O God, command Your strength; strengthen, O God, that which You have done in us.

For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been granted to harm the earth and the sea,

saying, "Do not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we shall seal the servants of our God on their foreheads."

The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in Him; [He is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.