Quotes About Faith

Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,

and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah

I say to the proud, ëDo not boast,í and to the wicked, ëDo not lift up your horn.

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.í”

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

But I will proclaim Him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.

when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah