Isaiah 30:18

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

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

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

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

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

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,

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

“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.

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.