Luke 2:17

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,

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

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

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

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.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

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

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

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

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

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.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

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

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

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

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

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

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”