Psalms 119:123

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

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.”

“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.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

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.” ’ ”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

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, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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

and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

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.

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

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

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

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

But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

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

They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.

I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.

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

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

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.