Genesis 43:31

For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’ ”

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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.”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

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

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

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

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.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

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

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.”

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.