Proverbs 29:26

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

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

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” Then he arose, and went down with him to the king.

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

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.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

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!’ ”

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

For Yahweh says: “Just as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

“Take him, and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

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.”

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

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

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.