Lamentations 3:29

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

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

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

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.

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

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

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

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

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!”

The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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

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.’ ”

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.