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And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

And by him was built from the foundation the double height, the high fortress of the wall about the temple:

To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.

Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.

And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.

From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.

And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.

Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.

But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the fortress courageously four days.

Howbeit Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus’ captains, went forth, and slew those that Timotheus had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.

Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas’ coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the places.