Isaiah 2:22

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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

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.”

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

“ ‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

The name of the star is called “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.