Proverbs 29:18

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

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

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’ ”

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh. ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?” or “Who would enter into our homes?”

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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.

Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’ ”

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

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

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

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

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.