Jeremiah 20:13

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

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.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

“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.

You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

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

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord:

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

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

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”