Genesis 35:3
Hebrew Text— Genesis 35:3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
“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.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
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.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
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.
Salvation belongs to Yahweh. May your blessing be on your people.
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
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.
You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
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.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.
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.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”