Psalms 29:5

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

(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They have made your benches of ivory inlaid in cypress wood from the islands of Kittim.

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants,

They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.

All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.

Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

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.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers. Your wise men, Tyre, were in you. They were your pilots.

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

but I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”