2 Samuel 12:15

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”

Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

Jeroboam didn’t recover strength again in the days of Abijah. Yahweh struck him, and he died.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

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

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.