Genesis 26:22

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess 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.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

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

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

About Gad he said, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm and the crown of the head.

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

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

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.