[027] A Message From A Poem – Based On Psalm 91

[027] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – BASED ON PSALM 91

When people are asked for their favourite Psalm, usually Psalm 23 is given, the Shepherd Psalm. There are a few who chose Psalm 91 as a Psalm they love and the reasons are not hard to find in this Psalm. This is a beautiful Psalm.

I am pasting the full Psalm in this Poem illustration for I have taken material very heavily from the Psalm to form this poem. The stanzas follow the Psalm in order.

There are many lovely quotations that have been taken from this Psalm for texts and cards and quotes. Verse 11 is quoted in the New Testament, but it was Satan who quoted it, and it was quoted wrongly.

{{Luke 4:9 He led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here

Luke 4:10 for it is written, ‘He will give His angels charge concerning You to guard You,’

Luke 4:11 and, ‘On their hands they will bear You up, lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’}}

In verse 11 of the Luke account Satan omitted the most important words that are found in verse 11 of Psalm 91 “In ALL your ways,” is very necessary for the great fact of dependence and care from God. By cutting it off, you are destroying the thorough care of God. Satan is cunning, perverse and deadly.

This wonderful Psalm is full of comfort and assurance and shouts God’s providence. What more shall we want? We need it before our eyes in shining words for it reveals the heart of God for all His dear children.

I hope you find comfort in these scriptures and/or on the poem as well.

{{Psalm 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:2 I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!”

Psalm 91:3 It is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence.

Psalm 91:4 He will cover you with His pinions and under His wings you may seek refuge. His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.}}

{{Psalm 91:5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night or of the arrow that flies by day;

Psalm 91:6 of the pestilence that stalks in darkness or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

Psalm 91:7 A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not approach you.

Psalm 91:8 You will only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked,

Psalm 91:9 for you have made the LORD, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place.

Psalm 91:10 No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent.}}

{{Psalm 91:11 He will give His angels charge concerning you to guard you IN ALL YOUR WAYS.

Psalm 91:12 They will bear you up in their hands lest you strike your foot against a stone.

Psalm 91:13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra. The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.}}

{{Psalm 91:14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him securely on high because he has known My name.

Psalm 91:15 He will call upon Me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will rescue him, and honour him.

Psalm 91:16 With a long life I will satisfy him and let him behold My salvation.”}}

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BASED ON PSALM 91

There is a shelter where to hide,

That God, Most High, has granted us.

And in His shadow there abide;

Almighty near, and glorious.

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My refuge and my fortress true,

My only God in whom I trust:-

When trappers’ snares against me grew,

Delivered me from what’s unjust.

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Because Your hand upon me is,

The deadly pestilence I’ll skirt.

The cov’ring pinions - they are His;

Beneath His wings, a refuge girt.

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No terror will you fear by night,

Or pestilence that stalks the dark,

Or arrows by the day in flight;

No noon destruction leaves its mark.

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A thousand foes fall at your side,

And ten times that at your right hand.

Approach you not, some wicked tide;

Their recompense you’ll understand.

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My refuge, you have made the Lord,

No plague will come near to your tent.

You dwell, with the Most High aboard,

No evil will befall or rent.

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O’er you He gives His angels charge,

To guard you in your every way.

Their hands will bear you up at large;

Protect your foot from stones that lay.

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The roaring lion will not harm,

The poison cobra you’ll subdue.

Young lions prowl but you’ll be calm,

You’ll trample them that come ‘gainst you.

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“Because his love for Me is known,

Him therefore, I will deliver.

My name revered; to Me he’s flown.

On high I’ll set him there secure.

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And when he calls upon My name -

On Me; then answer him, I will.

In trouble be with him, to claim;

To rescue, honour; I’ll fulfil.”

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16 & 17 December, 1997 R.E.Ferguson 8-8-8-8 ABAB