Psalms 147:11

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

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

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad. Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”

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.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—