77 Bible Verses About God as Refuge

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

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.

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi:

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.