Jer 16:19, Hab 3:17-18, Rom 4:18, 8:31, 2Cor 1:6, 9-10, Heb 13:6 | ESV | STEP | O Lord , my strength and my stronghold , my refuge in the day of trouble , to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say : Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies , worthless things in which there is no profit .

gCited from Gen. 15:5

h Num. 14:9; 2 Kgs. 6:16; Ps. 118:6; 1 John 4:4

j 2 Tim. 2:10; [ch. 4:15; 12:15; Eph. 3:13]

k Luke 18:9

l Ps. 2:12; 25:2; 26:1

m ch. 4:14

nSee Rom. 15:31

o 1 Tim. 4:10

pCited from Ps. 118:6; [Ps. 27:1]

q Ps. 56:4, 11

Jeremiah 16:19

19 ^aO Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
^bmy refuge in the day of trouble,
^cto you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
^dworthless things in which there is no profit.

Habakkuk 3:17-18

Habakkuk Rejoices in the Lord

17 Though the fig tree should not blossom,
nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
and there be no herd in the stalls,
18 ^eyet I will rejoice in the Lord;
^fI will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Romans 4:18

18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, ^g“So shall your offspring be.”

Romans 8:31

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? ^hIf God is for us, who can be ^{▼▼Or who is} against us?

2 Corinthians 1:6

6 ^jIf we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us ^krely not on ourselves ^lbut on God ^mwho raises the dead. 10 ⁿHe delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. ^oOn him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

Hebrews 13:6

6 So we can confidently say,

^p“The Lord is my helper;
^qI will not fear;
what can man do to me?”