Job 5:16

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

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

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

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

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

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

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.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: