Psalms 25:1

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

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

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear:

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,