Psalm 18:2 {17:3}
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Contemporary English Version
You are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector, the rock where I am safe, my shield, my powerful weapon, and my place of shelter.

New American Bible
LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

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Psalm 28:1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 62:2,7 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. . . .

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

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Psalm 91:2 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

Psalm 144:2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

Jeremiah 16:19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

strength [Heb.

Hebrews 2:13 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.

buckler

Psalm 91:4 He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.

Proverbs 2:7 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

horn

Psalm 132:17 There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

2 Samuel 22:3 God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

high

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
1Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: 2The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.3Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.…
Cross References
Luke 1:69
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.

Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 33:21
And again he said: Behold there is a place with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.

Deuteronomy 32:18
Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

Psalm 18:31
For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

Psalm 18:46
The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

Psalm 19:14
And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.

Psalm 28:1
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 28:7
The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

Psalm 31:2
Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

Psalm 31:3
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

Psalm 33:20
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.

Psalm 42:9
I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 59:9
I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:

Psalm 59:11
God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:

Psalm 144:1
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

Psalm 144:2
My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.

Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Psalm 18:1
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