Psalm 28:9

My Strength

⁸ The Lord strengthens his people; he protects and delivers his chosen king. ⁹ Deliver your people! Empower the nation that belongs to you! Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!

Lifted Up

David

Deuteronomy 9:29

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

1 Kings 8:51

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

Ezra 1:4

Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.'"

Psalm 78:71

He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the desert, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place."

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

2 Samuel 7:7

Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, "Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?"'

2 Samuel 21:3

David said to the Gibeonites, "What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless the Lord's inheritance?"

1 Kings 8:53

After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."

Psalm 14:7

I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When the Lord restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

Psalm 25:22

O God, rescue Israel from all their distress!

Psalm 80:14-19

O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine,

Isaiah 46:3

"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.

Isaiah 63:9

Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.

Jeremiah 10:16

The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob's descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all."

Jeremiah 31:7

Moreover, the Lord says, "Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, 'Lord, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.'

Ezekiel 34:23-24

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them -- namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Micah 5:2

As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah -- from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.

Micah 5:4

He will assume his post and shepherd the people by the Lord's strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. They will live securely, for at that time he will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your shepherd's rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.

Matthew 2:6

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

Ephesians 1:18

-- since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened -- so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,