Luke 2:25

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

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.

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.

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.”

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

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

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.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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.

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

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

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

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

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.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

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.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

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

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!”

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.

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.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

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.

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

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

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.

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?

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

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

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.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

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

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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