Psalms 138:2
Hebrew Text— Psalms 138:2I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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.
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
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.
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.
He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.