Psalms 119:67

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

“For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.