The one true God is my mighty refuge; he removes the obstacles in my way.

The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.

The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

You are the God who does amazing things; you have revealed your strength among the nations.

for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord’s promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord’s promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

The Lord deserves praise! Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us. (Selah)

Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

Then I said, “Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

This is what the true God, the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it: