Protecção e segurança
Deus é nosso protetor e refúgio seguro. Em todas as circunstâncias, a Bíblia nos assegura que o Senhor guarda, sustenta e protege aqueles que nele confiam.
Deus, a nossa fortaleza
O Senhor é refúgio e fortaleza, socorro bem presente na angústia. Quem habita no esconderijo do Altíssimo descansa à sombra do Todo-Poderoso.
Unto the end, for the sons of Core.
Unto the end, for the sons of Core.
A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.
It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.
The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.
But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.
For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!
And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
O escudo do Senhor
Deus nos rodeia com sua proteção como um escudo. Ele é rocha, baluarte e libertador. Sua fidelidade nos cobre e nos guarda.
Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.
The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.
Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.
Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.
But thou, O Lord art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.
I have slept and taken my rest: and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.
I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
Every day I will bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.
Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickedness cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.
But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name shall glory in thee:
The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.
The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.
Segurança e provisão
O Senhor supre todas as necessidades dos seus filhos. Quem busca o Reino primeiro não precisa temer — nada faltará aos que temem ao Senhor.
On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.
All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.
For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him.
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?
Guarda e livramento
O anjo do Senhor acampa ao redor dos que o temem e os livra. Deus promete guardar todas as nossas saídas e entradas para sempre.
For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.
Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.
I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.
Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.
Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.
Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.
Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.
For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
Unto the end. A psalm for David.
In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.
Confiança inabalável
Melhor é confiar no Senhor do que confiar no homem. Quem anda em integridade anda seguro, e a torre forte do nome do Senhor protege o justo.
Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.
I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.
In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.
For the Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken.
He that walketh sincerely, walketh confidently: but he that perverteth his ways, shall be manifest.
Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.
Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity. Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
The horse is prepared for the day of battle: but the Lord giveth safety.
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
A presença protetora
O Senhor prometeu estar conosco e nunca nos desampara. Ele é como sombra à nossa direita e fortaleza em todo o tempo.
Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee.
His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.
And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders shall be rest.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.
Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.
As birds dying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
The Lord is good and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.
Promessas de cuidado
Deus garante que nem um fio de cabelo cairá sem sua permissão. Ele deseja que vivamos em paz, confiança e segurança total nele.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.
And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake. But a hair of your head shall not perish. In your patience you shall possess your souls.
When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, did you want anything?
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?
So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.
Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.
Fidelidade e aliança
Deus é fiel à sua aliança. Ele protege cada promessa que faz e guarda os seus como a menina dos seus olhos.
But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.
And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.
And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.
We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.
And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.
I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may endure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it, and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served David under tribute: and the Lord preserved David in all his enterprises, whithersoever he went.
And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone: and have slain all thy enemies before thee, and have made thee a name like that of one of the great ones that are renowned in the earth.
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfill them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,
I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Provisão diária
Deus satisfaz os desejos do coração dos seus filhos. Ele abençoa, renova as forças e sustenta dia após dia quem nele confia.
But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.
Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.
By the fruit of their corn, their wine and oil, they are multiplied.
Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.
Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance.
And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.
Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun.
So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.
For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every hungry soul.
For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.