2 Kings 7:10

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said, “Behold, a man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”

Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.

He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

He called the gatekeepers; and they told it to the king’s household within.

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

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 grain blasted before it has grown up.

and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.