Luke 1:48

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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?

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

“ ‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

“Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

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

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

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

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.

“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

“Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,

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 rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.

She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.