Psalms 116:11

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

“You shall not steal.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

both low and high, rich and poor together.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

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

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

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.

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

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

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

The king of Israel said, “Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

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.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”