Psalms 106:12

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.” ’ ”

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

“Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;