Proverbs 6:13

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

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

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.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

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.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.