Proverbs 19:12

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

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

He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”

Then the herald cried aloud, “To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.