“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees—palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook—and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

May Yahweh bless you and protect you;

The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.

David called to Abner, “You’re a man, aren’t you? Who in Israel is your equal? So why didn’t you protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

What you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, all of you deserve to die since you didn’t protect your lord, the Lord’s anointed. Now look around; where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of 1,000 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’

I did this because I was ashamed to ask the king for infantry and cavalry to protect us from enemies during the journey, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who abandon Him.”

You, Lord, will guard us;
You will protect us from this generation forever.

A Davidic Miktam.Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble;
may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

You are my hiding place;
You protect me from trouble.
You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A Davidic Miktam. When Saul sent agents to watch the house and kill him.Deliver me from my enemies, my God;
protect me from those who rise up against me.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.God, hear my voice when I complain.
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.

But as for me—poor and in pain—
let Your salvation protect me, God.

Protect my life, for I am faithful.
You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.

For He will give His angels orders concerning you,
to protect you in all your ways.

The Lord will protect you from all harm;
He will protect your life.

The Lord will protect your coming and going
both now and forever.

Protect me, Lord,
from the clutches of the wicked.
Keep me safe from violent men
who plan to make me stumble.

Protect me from the trap they have set for me,
and from the snares of evildoers.

so that He may guard the paths of justice
and protect the way of His loyal followers.

They will protect you from an evil woman,
from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

Keep my commands and live;
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.

The proud speech of a fool brings a rod of discipline,
but the lips of the wise protect them.

From the fruit of his mouth a man’s stomach is satisfied;
he is filled with the product of his lips.

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

Like hovering birds,
so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem—
by protecting it, He will rescue it,
by sparing it, He will deliver it.

You are worn out with your many consultations.
So let them stand and save you—
the astrologers, who observe the stars,
who predict monthly
what will happen to you.

In the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to strengthen and protect him.

But you are profaning it when you say: “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.”

For it is written:

He will give His angels orders concerning you,
to protect you,

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.

I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.

Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy,