Job 22:12
Hebrew Text— Job 22:12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
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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,
A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
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.
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
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.
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’
because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.
For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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 he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.
In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,
He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.
Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?