Isaiah 40:31

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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!”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Pray without ceasing.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

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

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

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

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

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

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

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.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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.

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.

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

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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

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

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;

On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.