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Introduction

The book of Psalms is filled with the songs and prayers offered to God by the nation of Israel. Their expressions of praise, faith, sorrow, and frustration cover the range of human emotions. Some of the Psalms dwell on the treasure of wisdom and God’s Word. Others reveal the troubled heart of a mourner. Still others explode with praise to God and invite others to join in song. This diversity is unified by one element: they are centered upon the one and only living God. This Creator God is King of all the earth and a refuge to all who trust in him. Many of the Psalms are attributed to King David. The writing and collection of the Psalms into their present form spans the fifteenth to the third centuries b.c.

Ge 15:1

God’s Covenant with Abram 15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: c“Fear not, Abram, I am dyour shield; your reward shall be very great.”

Ex 15:2

2  hThe Lord is my strength and my isong, and he has become jmy salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, kmy father’s God, and lI will exalt him.

Dt 32:4

4  p“The Rock, qhis work is perfect, for rall his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and swithout iniquity, just and upright is he.

2 Sa 22:2

2 aHe said, b“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

Ps 18:30

30  This God—his way is cperfect;4 the word of the Lord dproves true; he is ea shield for all those who ftake refuge in him.

Ps 18:31

31  For gwho is God, but the Lord? And who is ha rock, except our God?—

Ps 19:14

14  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my jrock and my kredeemer.

Ps 28:1

1  To you, O Lord, I call; jmy rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you kbe silent to me, I become like those who lgo down to the pit.

Ps 31:2

2  Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be sa rock of trefuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

Ps 42:9

9  I say to God, nmy rock: “Why have you forgotten me? oWhy do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Ps 61:2

2  from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is nfaint. Lead me to othe rock that is higher than I,

Ps 62:2

2  aHe alone is my rock and my salvation, my bfortress; cI shall not be greatly shaken.

Ps 71:3

3  Be to me a rock of jrefuge, to which I may continually come; you have kgiven the command to save me, for you are my lrock and my fortress.

Ps 73:26

26  iMy flesh and my heart may fail, but God is jthe strength2 of my heart and my kportion lforever.

Ps 89:26

26  He shall cry to me, ‘You are my gFather, my God, and hthe Rock of my salvation.’

Ps 91:2

2  I will say1 to the Lord, “My crefuge and my dfortress, my God, in whom I etrust.”

Ps 92:15

15  zto declare that the Lord is upright; he is my arock, and there is bno unrighteousness in him.

Ps 94:22

22  But the Lord has become my astronghold, and my God bthe rock of my crefuge.

Ps 116:1

I Love the Lord 116 I ylove the Lord, because he has zheard my voice and my pleas for mercy.

Ps 144:1

1  Blessed be the Lord, my grock, hwho trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

Ps 144:2

2  he is my isteadfast love and my jfortress, my kstronghold and my deliverer, my lshield and he in whom I take refuge, who msubdues peoples1 under me.

Pr 18:10

10  iThe name of the Lord is ja strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and kis safe.

Lk 1:69

69  and khas raised up la horn of salvation for us min the house of his servant David,

Heb 2:13

13 And again, e“I will put my trust in him.” And again, f“Behold, I and the children gGod has given me.”