Jeremiah 10:16

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

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

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

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.

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.

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?

Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters:

“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.