John 9:8

The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’ ”

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

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?

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

“If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’ ”

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.

A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,

Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

He entered and was passing through Jericho.

A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”