Lamentations 3:21

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

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

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

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

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.

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.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

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

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.” ’ ”

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

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

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

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

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

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

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.