Psalms 33:18

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.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

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

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

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.”

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

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.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Give us today our daily bread.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

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.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

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

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

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

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

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

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

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

“Yahweh says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live, and he will escape with his life, and he will live.’

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

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

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’ ”

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.