Job 29:2

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.

“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: