Isaiah 28:5

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.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.

“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

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.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”