Isaiah 8:17

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

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

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake 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.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

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.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

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

“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

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

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.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

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

For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

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

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

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

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

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,

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

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.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

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

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

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

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!”

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

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.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

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

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

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

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

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

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.