Bible Verses About Rocks

Worn out by want and hunger, they gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

to live in gullies and vadis, in holes in the ground and caves in the rocks.

"Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you seen deer in labor?

It lives and spends its nights on the cliffs; a rocky crag is its fortress.

For the leader. By David the servant of ADONAI, who addressed the words of this song to ADONAI on the day when ADONAI delivered him from the power of all his enemies, including from the power of Sha'ul. He said: "I love you, ADONAI, my strength!

"ADONAI is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold.

For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of trouble, he will hide me in the folds of his tent, he will set me high on a rock.

Turn your ear toward me, come quickly to my rescue, be for me a rock of strength, a fortress to keep me safe.

Since you are my rock and fortress, lead me and guide me for your name's sake.

He brought me up from the roaring pit, up from the muddy ooze, and set my feet on a rock, making my footing firm.

so that your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

They would be fed with the finest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks."

He will call to me, 'You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.'

But ADONAI has become my stronghold, my God is my rock of refuge.

Come, let's sing to ADONAI! Let's shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation!

For the wild goats there are the high mountains, while the coneys find refuge in the rocks.

the coneys, a species with little power, yet they make their home in the rocks;

[He] My dove, hiding in holes in the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, let me see your face and hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

People will enter cracks in the rocks and holes in the ground to escape the terror of ADONAI and his glorious majesty, when he sets out to convulse the earth.

He is there to be a sanctuary. But for both the houses of Isra'el he will be a stone to stumble over, a rock obstructing their way; a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

ADONAI-Tzva'ot will wield a whip against them, as he did when striking Midyan at the Rock of 'Orev; as his staff was over the sea, he will raise it, the way it was in Egypt.

For you have forgotten the God who saved you, failed to remember the Rock of your strength; so you plant pagan-style gardens and set out vine-cuttings for a foreign god.

'What do you own here, and who gave you the right to cut yourself a tomb here? Why do you get such an eminent tomb? Why are you carving a resting-place for yourself in the rock?'"

A man will be like a refuge from the wind, like protection from a storm, like streams of water on arid ground, like a rock cliff shading a weary land.

Such a person will live on the heights, his refuge a fortress among the cliffs, his food and water in steady supply.