Psalms 108:12

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

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

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

“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?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

“ ‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period. She is unclean.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

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.

“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

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

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

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.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

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.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men.

A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.