Psalms 35:14

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

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

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

“You shall not murder.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

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

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’ ”

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

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

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

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

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.