Habakkuk 3:16

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

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

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.

“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.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

For Yahweh says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it will become a desolate heap, and her daughters will be burned with fire: then Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

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.

saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.

Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

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

Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.

“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”