Lexicon :: Strong's H4581 - māʿôz

“God is my strong fortress;

He sets the blameless in His way.

A Psalm of David.

The LORD is my light and my salvation—

Whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the refuge and fortress of my life—

Whom shall I dread?

The LORD is their [unyielding] strength,

And He is the fortress of salvation to His anointed.

Incline Your ear to me, deliver me quickly;

Be my rock of refuge,

And a strong fortress to save me.

You will draw me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me,

For You are my strength and my stronghold.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;

He is their refuge and stronghold in the time of trouble.

For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?

Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

“Look, [this is] the man who would not make God his strength [his stronghold and fortress],

But trusted in the abundance of his riches,

Taking refuge in his wealth.”

“Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim is My helmet;

Judah is My scepter.

“Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim also is the helmet of My head [My stronghold, My defense];

Judah is My [fn]scepter.

The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright,

But it is ruin to those who do evil.

In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like [fn]deserted places in the forest,

Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;

And the land will be a desolation.

Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children];

For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,

“I have neither labored nor given birth [to children];

I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

He has stretched out His hand over the sea,

He has shaken the kingdoms;

The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to destroy her strongholds and her fortresses [like Tyre and Sidon].

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For your stronghold [of Tyre] is destroyed.

For You have been a stronghold for the helpless,

A stronghold for the poor in his distress,

A shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat;

For the breath of tyrants

Is like a rainstorm against a wall.

“Or let him (Israel) cling to My strength and rely on My protection [My stronghold],

Let him make peace with Me,

Let him make peace with Me.”

Who proceed down to Egypt

Without consulting [fn]Me,

To take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh

And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

[Then said Jeremiah] “O LORD, my Strength and my Stronghold,

And my Refuge in the day of distress and need,

The nations will come to You

From the ends of the earth and say,

‘Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies and illusion,

[Worthless] things in which there is no benefit!’

‘As for you, son of man, on the day when I take their strength and their stronghold from them, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes and [fn]their heart’s [chief] delight (the temple), and I also take their sons and their daughters,

“I will pour out My wrath on Pelusium,

The stronghold of Egypt,

And I will cut off (destroy) the population of Thebes.

“Also I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I (Gabriel) arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him.

“His sons will prepare for battle and assemble a multitude of great forces; which will keep on coming and overflow [the land], and pass through, so that they may again wage war as far as his fortress.

The LORD thunders and roars from Zion

And utters His voice from Jerusalem [in judgment of His enemies],

And the heavens and the earth tremble and shudder;

But the LORD is a refuge for His people

And a stronghold [of protection] to the children of Israel.

The LORD is good,

A strength and stronghold in the day of trouble;

He knows [He recognizes, cares for, and understands fully] those who take refuge and trust in Him.

You too [Nineveh] will become drunk [with the cup of God’s wrath];

You will be hidden.

You too [Nineveh] will search [in vain] for a refuge from the enemy.