Psalms 119:169

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

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’ ”

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.