Isaiah 8:11

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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;

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

But now bring me a musician.” When the musician played, Yahweh’s hand came on him.

Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

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

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’ ”

Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.

He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.