Proverbs 31:6

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

I will get a piece of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”

Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”

David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.

Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,