Nehemiah 11:17

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

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

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, “Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;

He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

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

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,

Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;

These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);

All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.

When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;

Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.

The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.