Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible




Therefore the Lord waits [expectantly] and longs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
Blessed (happy, fortunate) are all those who long for Him [since He will never fail them].


Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and on the earth; Yours is the dominion and kingdom, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.

For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding. God reigns over the nations; God sits upon His holy throne. The princes and nobles of the peoples are gathered together, a [united] people for the God of Abraham, for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.



“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.


The Lord lives, blessed be my rock;
And may the God of my salvation be exalted,


The right hand of the Lord is exalted;
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.


The proud look of man will be degraded
And the arrogance of men will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.


But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in justice,
And God, the Holy One, will show Himself holy in righteousness [through His righteous judgments].



Be to me a rock of refuge and a sheltering stronghold to which I may continually come;
You have given the commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.





My [steadfast] lovingkindness and my fortress,
My high tower and my rescuer,
My shield and He in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my people under me.



“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.

He said: The Lord is my Rock [of escape from Saul] and my Fortress [in the wilderness] and my Deliverer; My God, my Rock, in Him will I take refuge; my Shield and the Horn of my salvation; my Stronghold and my Refuge, my Savior -- "You save me from violence.


Yes, You are my rock and my fortress;
For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.




“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.



“For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves judge this.


To you I call, O Lord,
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).


He alone is my rock and my salvation,
My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.


But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.




“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.



“For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves judge this.


To you I call, O Lord,
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).


He alone is my rock and my salvation,
My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.


But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.




“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.



“For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves judge this.


To you I call, O Lord,
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).


He alone is my rock and my salvation,
My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.


But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.



Each [one of them] will be like a hiding place from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like streams of water in a dry land,
Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched and weary land [to those who turn to them].


Incline Your ear to me, deliver me quickly;
Be my rock of refuge,
And a strong fortress to save me.


and all [of them] drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.



He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.


“The God of Israel,
The Rock of Israel spoke to me,
‘He who rules over men righteously,
Who rules in the fear of God,


“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.


Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,


“For who is God, besides the Lord?
And who is a rock, besides our God?



“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.


“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].
You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!
Then he abandoned God who had made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.