Psalms 119:23

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.

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

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

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

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

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

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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.

but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”

For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

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

The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”

David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!

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.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

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.

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.

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

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

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

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.

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

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.

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

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

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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 when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

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

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,