Psalms 42:1

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin.

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.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.

But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

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

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’ ”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

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

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.

the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.