1 Samuel 28:5

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

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

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.

They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.

Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”

(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’ ”

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them, and they plundered all the cities; for there was much plunder in them.

Then Amaziah separated them, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

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