Lamentations 3:20

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

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.

Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

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.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

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.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

“It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

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!”

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.