Numbers 21:17

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.” ’ ”

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

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!”

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

Behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each. So he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

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.

They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor, on your wondrous works.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.’

This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”