Psalms 38:5

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

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

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

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

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.

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?

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

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

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,