2 Samuel 23:1

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

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.”

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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.

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

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.

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.