The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
- KJV The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
- NKJV The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe.
- NASB The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.
- NLT The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godly run to him and are safe.
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Quick answer
The LORD's name is a secure refuge for the righteous. Those who trust in God find safety in Him.
Overview
Yahweh's name, His revealed character and presence, is pictured as a strong tower into which the righteous flee for safety. True security rests not in walls or wealth but in God Himself. This anticipates the gospel, in which salvation is found in the name of the Lord (Acts 2:21) and supremely in the name of Jesus, the only name by which we are saved (Acts 4:12), our refuge and strong tower.
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Cross-references · 24
- 2 Sam 22:3My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.
- Ps 91:2I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
- Isa 26:4Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
- Ps 144:2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
- Ps 61:3–4For You have been my refuge, a tower of strength against the enemy.
- Ps 27:1Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?
- Ps 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
- Ps 56:3–4When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- 1 Sam 30:6And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
- Ps 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- Jer 23:6In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
- 2 Sam 22:45–47Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
- Gen 32:28–29Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Hab 3:19GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.
- Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- 2 Sam 22:51Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Exod 3:13–15Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
- Gen 32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
- Exod 6:3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
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