Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
“Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’
And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! I have fled to you for refuge.
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the Lord.”
And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.
But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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