Deuteronomy 28:19

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

but we will bless Yah, from this time forward and forever more. Praise Yah!

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

“Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”

Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

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

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,

He was with them entering into Jerusalem,

There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;