Mark 14:37

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.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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;

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

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?’

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

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

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare?

When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

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.”

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him.

They all left him, and fled.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Yet I heard the voice of his words. When I heard the voice of his words, then I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

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.

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

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.

They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”

He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

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.”