Deuteronomy 33:23

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

The border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.