Isaiah 11:4

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

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

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

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.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

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

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.