Job 33:11

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

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.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

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

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

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,

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

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?”

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.