Ecclesiastes 1:6

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.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

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.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

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.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

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

The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

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.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”

They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”