Psalms 40:2

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.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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;

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

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

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

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

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.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

But God raised him from the dead,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

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.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

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

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

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.