Psalms 119:84

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

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.

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

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?”

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”