How many times have we been at the end of our tether and needed God to help us? What we've craved, whether we put it this way or not, is deliverance. It's a Bible word meaning rescue. Perhaps we've struggled under a heavy load and wanted someone to carry it for us. Or we're faced with a situation we can't see a way through. We dread what's to come, and we'd do anything not to have to deal with it, but there's no way out.

Sometimes God helps us by miraculously intervening and taking us out of harm's way. Sometimes he gives us the strength to cope with what we need to face. But deliverance is what his people in Scripture prayed for, and what he still blesses us with today.

Here are 10 Bible verses about deliverance.

1. 'I look for your deliverance, Lord' (Genesis 49:18).

2. Moses answered the people, 'Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today' (Exodus 14:13).

3.The Lord said to Moses, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands (Numbers 21:34).

4. For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you (Deuteronomy 23:14).

5. 'See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand (Deuteronomy 32:39).

6. Rather, worship the Lord your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies (2. Kings 17:39)

7. You are my hiding-place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance (Psalm 32:7).

8. In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength. All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame (Isaiah 45:24).

9. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, even among the survivors whom the Lord calls (Joel 2:32).

10. But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance (Obadiah 1:17).