Job 16:9

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against 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.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

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.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

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

“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

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?”

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?

“Go up to Lebanon, and cry. Lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers have been destroyed.

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”