Psalms 144:12

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters

Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Thus said Yahweh, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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.”

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

About Asher he said, “Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil.

for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’ ”

He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer with its pasture lands.

twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,