Isaiah 38:3

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

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

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

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.”

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

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

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

Now after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.

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.”

We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

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

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

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.”

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.