Job 29:5

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.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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.”

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as Yahweh the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

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

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

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

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.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

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

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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?

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,