New Revised Standard Version
I have been like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Contemporary English Version
Many people think of me as something evil. But you are my mighty protector,

New American Bible
I have become a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

Isaiah 8:18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.

Zechariah 3:6 And the angel of the Lord protested to Jesus, saying:

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

Acts 4:13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:8-10 By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known: . . .

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Psalm 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

Psalm 142:4,5 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul. . . .

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.