Isaiah 37:17

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

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.

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

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.

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

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

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

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.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,