Psalms 109:16

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

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

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

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.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

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

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.