Psalms 126:3

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.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

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?

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

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

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

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

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

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

Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

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

“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

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.”

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

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!”

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.