Quotes About Protection

You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”

a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaohís protection and take refuge in Egyptís shade.

But Pharaohís protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egyptís shade your disgrace.

For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.

But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.

who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ëDo not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ëHe will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,í declares the LORD.

ëI will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.í”

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.