Psalm 11:1

Celebration Of God's Justice

¹ In the Lord I take refuge [and put my trust];
How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;
²
For look, the wicked are bending the bow;
They take aim with their arrow on the string
To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

Trust in the Lord

David

Jehovah

1 Samuel 23:14

David stayed in the wilderness in strongholds, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.

Psalm 56:11

In God have I put my trust and confident reliance; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

1 Samuel 19:11

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him, so that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

1 Samuel 20:38

And Jonathan called out after the boy, “Hurry, be quick, do not stay!” So Jonathan’s boy picked up the arrow and came back to his master.

1 Samuel 21:10-12

Then David arose and fled from Saul that day, and went to Achish king of Gath.

1 Samuel 22:3

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come [out of Judah] and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 27:1

But David said in his heart, “Now I will die one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me inside the borders of Israel, and I will escape from his hand [once and for all].”

2 Chronicles 14:11

Asa called out to the Lord his God, saying, “O Lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and the weak; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in and rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.”

2 Chronicles 16:8

Were not the Ethiopians and Lubim a huge army with a great number of chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the Lord, He placed them in your hand.

Psalm 7:1

O Lord my God, in You I take refuge;
Save me and rescue me from all those who pursue me,

Psalm 9:10

And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.

Psalm 16:1

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

Psalm 25:2

O my God, in You I [have unwavering] trust [and I rely on You with steadfast confidence],
Do not let me be ashamed or my hope in You be disappointed;
Do not let my enemies triumph over me.

Psalm 31:14

But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O Lord;
I said, “You are my God.”

Psalm 55:6-7

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

Proverbs 6:5

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Isaiah 26:3-4

“You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character],
Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].

Luke 13:31

At that very hour some Pharisees came up and said to Him, “Leave and go away from here, because Herod [Antipas] wants to kill You.”