Psalms 102:10

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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.

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

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.

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

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.

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.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

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

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

that no flesh should boast before God.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;