Job 29:20

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

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.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

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

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

My salvation and my honor is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.

You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

In that day, Yahweh of Armies will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people,

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.