Job 24:17

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.

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

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.

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

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

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

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

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

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

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

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

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

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

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.

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.

because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

“ ‘The prince who is among them will bear on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ” ’ ”

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

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.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

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.”

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face, so that you don’t see the land, for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.”

“Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.