Psalms 119:161

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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

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,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

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?

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

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

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

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.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

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

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

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.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

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.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

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

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

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

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.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

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.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’