Psalms 39:7

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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.”

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

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.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

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

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.