Ecclesiastes 7:28

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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

Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

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

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.