Ecclesiastes 5:8

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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

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

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

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?

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

“I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

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

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

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

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.