Psalms 2:4

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,

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

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

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

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

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.

“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?