Judges 18:25

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s.

But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

“Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

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.

Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.