1 Samuel 3:12

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.

You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

“Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘An evil! A unique evil! Behold, it comes.

All flesh will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”

All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”

All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,

The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.