LORD, why do You stand so far away? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You at a time that You may be found. When great floodwaters come, they will not reach him.

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

[For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.] God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble.

Call on Me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor Me."

In my day of trouble I sought the Lord. My hands were lifted up all night long; I refused to be comforted.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will rescue him and give him honor.

If I walk in the thick of danger, You will preserve my life from the anger of my enemies. You will extend Your hand; Your right hand will save me.

Since I called out and you refused, extended my hand and no one paid attention,

I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when terror strikes you,

Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will search for me, but won't find me.

LORD, they went to You in their distress; they poured out whispered [prayers because] Your discipline [fell] on them.

say to a tree: You are my father, and to a stone: You gave birth to me. For they have turned their back to Me and not their face, but in their time of disaster they beg: Rise up and save us!

But where are your gods you made for yourself? Let them rise up and save you in your time of disaster if they can, for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

[For the choir director: "Do Not Destroy." A Davidic Miktam. When he fled before Saul into the cave.] Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me, for I take refuge in You. I will seek refuge in the shadow of Your wings until danger passes.

They devise clever schemes against Your people; they conspire against Your treasured ones.

You are my shelter and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are protected.

Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,

and there will be a booth for shade from heat by day, and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and close your doors behind you. Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain, like streams of water in a dry land and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

You hide them in the protection of Your presence; You conceal them in a shelter from the schemes of men, from quarrelsome tongues.

The one who lives under the protection of the Most High dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.

While Athaliah ruled over the land, he was hiding with them in God's temple six years.

I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted [to his house]. He said: Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you tonight!

But I said, "Should a man like me run away? How can I enter the temple and live? I will not go."

He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and sets me securely on the heights.

He brought me up from a desolate pit, out of the muddy clay, and set my feet on a rock, making my steps secure.

I call to You from the ends of the earth when my heart is without strength. Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

yet I will triumph in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

Yahweh my Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer and enables me to walk on mountain heights! [For the choir director: on stringed instruments.]

"Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock.

The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn't collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!"

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the forces of Hades will not overpower it.