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Ask a QuestionFor He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service].
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
Stretch forth Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hands of hostile aliens (tribes around us)
You are He Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword [of evil].
The cords of Sheol (the place of the dead) surrounded me; the snares of death confronted and came upon me.
With the pure You will show Yourself pure, and with the perverse You will show Yourself contrary.
The God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect?
I smote them so that they were not able to rise; they fell wounded under my feet.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling and tumult. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow into pieces and snaps the spear in two; He burns the chariots in the fire.
[Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.
NOW ABRAHAM journeyed from there toward the "Primitive geographic expressions such as 'the South country (the Negeb)' (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 20:1; 24:62) and 'the east country' (Gen. 25:6) are used in the time of Abraham... After the time of Genesis they have well-known and well-defined names; I submit that they were written down in early days, and that no writer after Moses could have used such archaic expressions as these" (P. J. Wiseman, New Discoveries in Babylonia About Genesis).South country (the Negeb) and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he lived temporarily in Gerar.
And the peoples [of Babylonia] shall This prophecy (Isa. 14:1, 2) was fulfilled literally and in detail under King Cyrus of Persia and Babylonia. (Ezra 1.)take them and bring them to their own country [of Judea] and help restore them. And the house of Israel will possess [the foreigners who prefer to stay with] them in the land of the Lord as male and female servants; and they will take captive [not by physical but by moral might] those whose captives they have been, and they will rule over their [former] oppressors.
BEHOLD, I send My This is fulfilled in John the Baptist (Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76).messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], Whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the The Messiah as God's representative will confirm and establish the covenant (see Isa. 42:6).Messenger or Angel of the covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts.
The cords or bands of death surrounded me, and the streams of ungodliness and the torrents of ruin terrified me.
And He rode upon a cherub [a storm] and flew [swiftly]; yes, He sped on with the wings of the wind.
Out of the brightness before Him there broke forth through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire.
And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout.