Proverbs 1:30

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.

For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.