Psalms 119:78

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

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.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

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

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

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

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

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

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

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?

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

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

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

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

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

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.

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

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

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

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

Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

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.

The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”

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

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.