Job 9:15

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

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

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

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

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

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?”

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

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

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

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

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

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

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

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

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

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.