Ecclesiastes 7:12

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

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,

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

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

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ