Psalms 142:4

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

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.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

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.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”

“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

They all left him, and fled.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.

All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.