Quotes About Protection

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.

I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.

Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.

Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”

and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”

But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.

For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.í”

Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.

Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

The LORDís anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.

Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”