Job 9:16

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

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

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

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?’

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

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

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”

And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

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

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

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

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘ “What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’

Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.