Nahum 1:7

The Lord is good, a stronghold in trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him. Even in a book about judgment, God is a sure shelter for his people.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
• John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• Lam 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
• Ps 91:1–2He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
• Ps 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
• Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
• Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• Gal 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
• Isa 25:4For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
• Ps 18:1–2For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
• 1 Chr 16:34Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
• Jer 17:7–8But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
• Ps 84:11–12For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• Jer 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
• Ps 86:7In the day of my distress I call on You, because You answer me.
• Isa 26:1–4In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
• Isa 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
• Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
• Ps 71:3Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
• 1 Jn 4:8–10Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• Ps 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
• Dan 6:23The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den, and when Daniel was lifted out of the den, no wounds whatsoever were found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
• Ps 136:1–26Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 59:16But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
• Ps 62:6–8He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.
• Rom 11:22Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
• 2 Chr 32:21and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
• 2 Chr 16:8–9Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.
• Matt 27:43He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
• 1 Chr 5:20And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.
• Ps 145:6–10They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.
• Isa 37:3–4to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
• 2 Chr 32:11Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
• Ps 144:1–2Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
• Ezra 3:11And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.

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