1 Samuel 2:21

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!

Give us today our daily bread.

He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” They all marveled.

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.