Psalm 71:3 {70:3}
Good News Translation
Be my secure shelter and a strong fortress to protect me; you are my refuge and defense.

New Revised Standard Version
Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Contemporary English Version
Be my mighty rock, the place where I can always run for protection. Save me by your command! You are my mighty rock and my fortress.

New American Bible
Be my rock of refuge, my stronghold to give me safety; for you are my rock and fortress.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

my strong habitation [heb.

Psalm 31:2,3 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 91:1,2 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. . . .

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

Isaiah 33:16 He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

thou hast

Psalm 44:4 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

Psalm 68:28 Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.

Psalm 91:11,12 For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. . . .

Ezekiel 9:6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.

Revelation 7:2,3 And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the sign of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, . . .

my rock

Psalm 18:2 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.

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.

Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
2Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me. 3Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:27
His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

2 Samuel 22:2
And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

Psalm 7:6
Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 18:2
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.

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 42:8
In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 90:1
A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Psalm 91:9
Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge.

Psalm 71:2
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