Proverbs 11:23
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 11:23The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.
For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
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:
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.