Lamentations 3:18

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

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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.”

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

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

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

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

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

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 said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

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

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

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

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

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.”

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

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

This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,