Psalm 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock,…”

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

World English Bible

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Geneva Bible 1599

The Lord is my rocke, and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth me, my God and my strength: in him will I trust, my shield, the horne also of my saluation, and my refuge.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Young's Literal Translation

Jehovah [is] my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God [is] my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

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Cross references

“Lord”

Psalm 62:7 Psalm 62:2 Isaiah 32:2 Psalm 28:1

Psalm 62:7 · BSB

My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

Psalm 62:2 · BSB

He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

Isaiah 32:2 · BSB

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Psalm 28:1 · BSB

To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

“fortress”

Psalm 144:2 Psalm 91:2 Jeremiah 16:19

Psalm 144:2 · BSB

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Psalm 91:2 · BSB

I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Jeremiah 16:19 · BSB

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at…

“whom”

Hebrews 2:13

Hebrews 2:13 · BSB

And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And once again: “Here am I, and the children God has given Me.”

“buckler”

Psalm 91:4 Proverbs 2:7

Psalm 91:4 · BSB

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

Proverbs 2:7 · BSB

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

“horn”

2 Samuel 22:3 Psalm 132:17

2 Samuel 22:3 · BSB

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

Psalm 132:17 · BSB

There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

“high”

Proverbs 18:10

Proverbs 18:10 · BSB

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

Also

Psalm 19:14 Psalm 59:11 Psalm 75:10

Psalm 19:14 · BSB

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 59:11 · BSB

Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Psalm 75:10 · BSB

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1I love You, O LORD, my strength.

3I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

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