Psalms 103:15

“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.”

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

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;

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

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

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.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

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.

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.

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

“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?

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

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

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

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.