Lamentations 3:27

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

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.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.