Psalms 16:5

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

“ ‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.

But Moses gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

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

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

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

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

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,

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

However, the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance east of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.”

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

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,

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

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?

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

“But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.