Psalms 39:11

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

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

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

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

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

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

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

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

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.