Psalms 12:1

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

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.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

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.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

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

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me.

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

“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.”

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

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

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.

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

which my soul still seeks, but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all those.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

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