Job 33:23

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

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.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

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

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

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

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

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.

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.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

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

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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.

Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.