Psalms 148:14

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

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

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

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.”

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

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

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

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

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

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

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!

All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.

to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!

Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

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 now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.