Matthew 22:15

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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.

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

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

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

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.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

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.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

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.

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

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

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

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.

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;

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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,

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

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