1 Samuel 1:8

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.

Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;

For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

“Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

He put them all together into custody for three days.

As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their little ones in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women.”

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.