Lamentations 3:25

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

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

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.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

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

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

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

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.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

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

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

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

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.