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data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17467a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>will say to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, “My refuge and my fortress;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my God, in whom I trust.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and from the deadly pestilence;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>he will cover you with his pinions,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You will not fear the terror of the night,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the arrow that flies by day,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>or the pestilence that stalks in darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the destruction that wastes at noonday.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>A thousand may fall at your side,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but it will not come near you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You will only look with your eyes</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Because you have made the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your refuge,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17475b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the Most High your dwelling place,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>no evil shall befall you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">no scourge come near your tent.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For he will command his angels concerning you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to guard you in all your ways.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>On their hands they will bear you up,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You will tread on the lion and the adder,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Those who love me, I will deliver;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will protect those who know my name.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>When they call to me, I will answer them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will be with them in trouble,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will rescue them and honor them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>With long life I will satisfy them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and show them my salvation.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 91:1">Psalm 91:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 91:9">Psalm 91:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>Because you, <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, are my refuge; you have made</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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