Psalms 109:28

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”

Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

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.

If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.

because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”