76 Bible Verses about defence, divine

Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice. Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; the man of thy contention, the men of thy war, shall be as nothing and as no more.

Behold, I send a messenger before thee to guard thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I prepared.

He will watch the feet of the merciful and the unjust shall be silent in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.

Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.

And in that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and he will say to him, In thy relying upon the king of Aram, and thou didst not rely upon Jehovah thy God, for this the power of the king of Aram escaped from thy hand. Were not the Cushites and the Lubims for an army for multitude, for chariots, and for horsemen to a great multitude? and in thy relying upon Jehovah he gave them into thy hand. For Jehovah, his eyes run to and fro in all the earth to strengthen himself with the perfected heart of them to him. Thou wert foolish for this that from now there is wars with thee.

And he will say, Thou shalt not fear: for the many which are with us are more than with them. And Elisha will pray, and say, Jehovah open now his eyes, and he shall see. And Jehovah will open the boy's eyes, and he will see: and behold, the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

Now I knew that Jehovah saved his Messiah; he will answer him from his holy heavens by the strength of the salvation of his right hand. These in chariots, and these in horses: and in the name of Jehovah our God will we remember. They bowed down and they fell: and we arose, and we shall stand erect

Behold, the messenger of Jehovah surrounding to those fearing him, and he will deliver them.

Therefore, thus said Jehovah to the king of Assur, He shall not come into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and a shield shall not come before it, and he shall not cast a mound against it In the way in which be shall come in it he shall turn back, and to this city he shall not come in, says Jehovah. And I protected this city, to save it for my sake and for sake of David my servant

A little to the just one is good more than the wealth of many unjust. For the arms of the unjust shall be broken, and Jehovah upholds the just Jehovah will know the days of the blameless, and their inheritance shall be forever.read more.
They shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Giving salvation to kings: snatch in away David his servant from the evil sword.

For this, thus said Jehovah concerning the king of Assur, Thou shalt not come into this city, and thou shalt not shoot an arrow there, and thou shalt not go before it with a shield, and thou shalt not cast a mound against it. In the way which he came in it he shall turn back, and to this city he shall not come in, says Jehovah. And I covered over this city to Save it for my sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

Song of ascensions. They trusting in Jehovah are as mount Zion; it shall not be moved; remaining forever. Jerusalem, the mountains are round about to her; and Jehovah is round about to his people from now and even to forever.

And I added to thy days fifteen years; and from the hand of the king of Assur I will deliver thee and this city; and I protected this city for my sake, and for sake of David my servant

And it was for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt, for they shall cry to Jehovah from the face of those pressing them, and he shall send to them him saving, and great, and he delivered them.

In that day shall the man look upon him making him, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.

And I will put my word in thy mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I covered thee, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou my people.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word. If it is, our God whom we served will be able to deliver us from the furnace of flaming fire, and from thy hand, O king, he will deliver us. And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:

And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assur: and I covered over this city.

God being known in her fortresses for a height

Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

Behold, I created the workman blowing the coals in the fire, and bringing forth a utensil for his work; and I created the destroyer to overthrow. Every vessel formed against thee shall not prosper: and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their justice is from me, says Jehovah.

Its birds flying, so will Jehovah of armies cover over Jerusalem, covering and he delivered; and passing over he saved.

Watch my soul and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.

He redeeming them is strong; Jehovah of armies, his name: pleading, he will plead their cause, so that he caused the land to rest, and caused disquiet to the inhabitants of Babel.

And Hezekiah will receive the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read them: and he will go up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah will spread it out before Jehovah. And Hezekiah will pray before Jehovah, and say, O Jehovah God of Israel, dwelling upon the cherubim; thou God himself alone to all the kingdoms of the earth; thou madest the heavens and the earth. O Jehovah, incline thine ear and hear; O Jehovah open thine eyes and see: and hear the words of Senherib, which sent him to reproach the living God.read more.
Indeed, O Jehovah, the kings of Assur laid waste the nations and their land. And they gave their gods into fire, for they were not gods, but the work of the hands of man, wood and stone: and they will destroy them. And now, O Jehovah our God, save us now out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou Jehovah art God alone.

And he will say to him, Run, speak to this youth, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited an open country from the multitude of men and cattle in the midst of her. And I will be to her, says Jehovah, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for glory in the midst of her.

For this, thus said Jehovah: Behold me pleading thy cause, and I took vengeance with thy vengeance; and I dried up her sea, and made her fountains dry.

And Hezekiah will take the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it: and he will go up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah will spread it before Jehovah. And Hezekiah will pray to Jehovah, saying, Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, dwelling in the cherubim, thou thy-self God alone to all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made the heavens,and the earth.read more.
Bend, O Jehovah, thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, thine eye, and see; and hear all the words of Senherib which he sent to reproach the living God. Indeed, O Jehovah, the kings of Assur laid waste all the lands, and their land; And he gave their gods into fire; for they were not God but the work of man's hands, wood and stone: and they will destroy them. And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou alone art Jehovah.

In that day Jehovah shall protect about the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he being weak among them in that day was as David; and the house of David as God, as the messenger of Jehovah before them.

And I encamped at my house a garrison from him passing by, and from him turning back: and he driving shall no more pass through against them: for now I saw with mine eyes.

And I say to thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not overcome her.

Thou a covering to me, from straits thou wilt watch me; thou wilt surround me with rejoicings of deliverance. Silence.

And now behold the sons of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, which thou gavest not to Israel to come against them in their coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned away from them and destroyed them not; And behold them rewarding upon us to come to drive us out from thy possession which thou causedst us to possess. O our God, wilt thou not judge against them? for no power in us before this great multitude coming against us; and we shall not know what we shall do: for our eyes are upon thee.

And he wrote letters to reproach to Jehovah God of Israel, and to say against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands who delivered not their people from my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people from my hand.

Watch me as the pupil of the daughter of the eye: thou wilt hide me in the shadow of thy wings.

And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all; . and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.) But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.

Rouse up and awake to judgment, my God and my Lord, for my contention.

Arise, O God, contend thy contention: remember thy reproach from the foolish all the day.

Thou wilt cover them in the covering of thy face from the snares of man: thou wilt conceal them in the booth from the strife of tongues.

Thou heardest the desire of the poor, O Jehovah: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to attend. To judge the orphan and the dejected, that the man of the earth shall no more add to make afraid.

For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the great, the strong, and the fearful God, who will not lift up faces, and will not take a gift. He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment

Watch my soul, for I am godly: save thy servant, thou my God, trusting in thee.

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy, to David a poem in his fleeing from the face of Saul in the cave. Compassionate me, O God, compassionate me: for in thee my soul put trust, and in the shadow of thy wings I will put my trust till calamity shall pass by.

The God of the beginning testifying, and underneath, the perpetual arms: and he will thrust out the enemy from before thee, and will say, Destroy.

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us, Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.

To the overseer for the sons of Korah, with the female voice: a song. O God, to us refuge and strength, helping greatly, being found in straits

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell. Are not two little sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the earth without your Father. And also the hairs of your head are all numbered.read more.
Fear not therefore; ye have the preeminence over many sparrows.

Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust

And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these not having anything remaining to do. And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him. Are not five little sparrows sold for two small coins, and one of them is not forgotten before God?read more.
But also the hairs of your head were all numbered. Therefore fear not: ye have the preeminence over many little sparrows.

In the fear of Jehovah the trust of strength, and to his sons a refuge.

Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come: For he redeeming them, he is strong; he will contend their contention with thee.

The name of Jehovah a tower of strength: into it the just one shall run and be exalted.

I ask not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil.

And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.

Jehovah is good for a fortress in the day of straits; and he knew those trusting in him.

What then shall we say to these? if God with us, who against us? Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all? Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying.read more.
Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter. But in all these we obtain a complete victory by him having loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

O Israel, trust in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: he their help and their shield. Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: he their help and their shield.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save for his heavenly kingdom: to whom the glory for the times of times. Amen.

And what more do I say? for the time will fail me recounting of Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthae; David also, and Samuel, and the prophets: Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions, Quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, turned away the armies of strangers.read more.
Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection. And others received trial of jestings and scourges, and further, of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) wandering about in solitary places, and mountains, and caves, and holes of the earth. And these all, having been testified of by faith, received not the promise:

After these words, the word of Jehovah was to Abram in a vision, saying, Thou shalt not fear, Abram: I a shield to thee, thy reward great exceedingly.

Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down: Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world. And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation.

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Thou my hiding and my shield: I hoped for thy word.

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

All the word of God is purified: he a shield to those trusting in him.

And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he sitting upon the throne will dwell among them.read more.
They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall guide them to living fountains of water: and God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes.

And David will speak to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he will say, Jehovah my rock and my fastness and my deliverer; The God of my rock; I will trust in him: My shield and the horn of my salvation, my height and my refuge; My saviour; thou wilt save me from violence.read more.
Praising, I will call Jehovah and shall be saved from mine enemies.

Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height. Praising, I will call upon Jehovah, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

Be thou to me for a rock of refuge to come always: thou didst command to save me, for thou my rock and my fortress.

He dwelling in the covering of the Most High, in the shadow of the Almighty shall he lodge. Saying to Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress: my God, I will trust in thee For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin.read more.
He will cover thee with his wing feathers, and under his wings thou shalt trust: his truth a shield and buckler.

. To David. Blessed be Jehovah my rock, teaching my hands for the encounter, my fingers for war; My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me.

For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall.