Isaiah 40:17

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?

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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

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

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

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.

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.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

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.

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

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

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

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

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

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

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

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

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

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

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

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?