Jeremiah 2:6

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

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

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

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.”

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and their livestock drank.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

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?’

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

to him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:

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?

He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

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.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

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.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”