Psalms of Protection: 7 Powerful Messages to Fight Negativity

Words have power and help us to achieve inner peace and be sources of positivity for those around us. So if that’s your faith, it’s important to get in touch with the sacred teachings of the Bible and allow yourself to receive God’s help. Knowing and praying for some of these protection psalms can be the best way to close the body of negativity and walk with more protection. Check out!

Protection psalms to pray with faith

Psalm 7

“O Lord my God, in thee do I trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me; * 2 ​​Lest he tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, with no one to deliver. * 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wickedness in my hands, * 4 If I have repaid with evil to him who was at peace with me (but I delivered him who oppressed me without cause), * 5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and reach it; trample my life underfoot, and crush my glory to dust (Selah). me for the judgment which thou hast ordained. * 7 So shall the gathering of peoples surround thee: therefore, for their sakes, turn thou on high. * 8 The Lord shall judge the peoples: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to the integrity that is in me.* 9 Let the malice of the wicked come to an end: but establish the righteous: for you, O righteous God, test the hearts and the reins. * 10 My shield is from God, who saves the upright in heart.* 11 God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry every day. * 12 If a man does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he has already drawn his bow, and is ready. * 13 And already prepared for him deadly weapons; and he will set his fiery arrows into action against the pursuers. * 14 Behold, he is in pangs of wickedness; he conceived works, and produced lies. * 15 he dug a well and made it deep, and it fell into the pit he made. * 16 His work will fall on his head; and his violence shall descend upon his own head. * 17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness, and I will sing praises to the name of the Lord Most High.”

Psalm 26

“Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my sincerity; I have also trusted in the Lord; I will not waver. * 2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; search my reins and my heart. * 3 For your kindness is before mine eyes; and I have walked in your truth. * 4 I have not sat down with vain men, nor conversed with deceitful men. * 5 I have hated the congregation of evildoers; I have not joined myself with the wicked. * 6 I wash my hands in innocence; and so I will walk around your altar, O Lord. Your glory remains. * 9 Take not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men, * 10 In whose hand is evil, and whose right hand is full of bribes. * 11 But I walk in my sincerity. ; deliver me and have mercy on me. * 12 My foot is set on a level path: in the congregations I will praise the Lord .”

Psalm 27

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? * 2 When the wicked, my adversaries and my enemies, approached me to eat the * 3 Even if an army surrounded me, my heart would not fear; if war were to rise against me, in this I would trust. * 4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple: 5 For in the day of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion; * 6 Now also my head shall be lifted up above my enemies that are round about me: therefore I will offer sacrifice of joy in his tabernacle: I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. * 7 Hear, O Lord, my voice when I call; have mercy also on me, and answer me. * 8 When you said, ‘Seek my face; my heart said to you’; Your face, O Lord, will I seek. * 9 Hide not thy face from me, cast not thy servant away in anger; you have been my help, do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. * 10 For when my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will gather me up. * 11 Teach me, Lord, your way, and lead me in the right path, because of my enemies. * 12 Do not hand me over to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have arisen against me, and those who breathe cruelty. * 13 He would surely perish if he did not believe that he would see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living. * 14 Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He will strengthen your heart; wait, therefore, on the Lord.”

Psalm 91

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. * 2 I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my God, my refuge, my fortress, and I will trust in him.’ * 3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the Lord. fowler, and from the harmful pestilence. * 4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will trust; his truth will be your shield and buckler. * 5 You will not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow that flies from * 6 Neither from the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor from the destruction that ravages at midday. * 7 A thousand will fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right, but it will not come to you. * 8 Only with your eyes * 9 For thou, O LORD, art my refuge: thou hast made thy dwelling in the Most High. * 10 No evil shall befall thee, nor shall any plague come near thy tent. * 11 For his angels command concerning you, to keep you in all your ways.* 12 They will uphold you in their hands, lest your foot strike a stone. . * 13 You shall tread on the lion and the snake; thou shalt trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot. * 14 Because he loved me so dearly, I also will deliver him; I will put him in high retirement, because he has known my name. * 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will take him away from her, and I will glorify him. * 16 I will satisfy him with length of days, and I will show him my salvation.”

Psalm 117

“Praise the LORD, all you nations, praise him, all you people. * 2 For his lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.”

Psalm 123

“To you I lift up my eyes, O thou that dwellest in heaven. * 2 As the eyes of servants look to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until you have pity on us. * 3 Have pity on us, O Lord, have pity on us, for we are full of contempt. * 4 Our soul is exceedingly full of the mockery of those who are at your will and from the contempt of the proud.”

Psalm 140

“Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man, * 2 Who think evil in their heart; they continually gather together for war. * 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is under * 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hand of the wicked; keep me from the violent man, who have purposed to overturn my steps. * 5 The proud have laid snares and ropes for me; * 6 I said to the Lord, You are my God; hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord. * 7 O God, Lord, strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.* 8 O LORD, grant not to the wicked his desires; * 10 Let burning coals fall on them; let them be thrown into the fire, into deep pits, lest they rise again. * 11 A man of bad language will not have firmness on earth; l will pursue the violent man until he is banished. * 12 I know that the Lord will uphold the cause of the oppressed, and the right of the needy. * 13 So the righteous will praise your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.”

Text: Vítor Ferreira | Editing: Milena Garcia and Renata Rocha