Psalms 119:122

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

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

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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

and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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

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

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

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.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

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.

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”