Psalms 42:4

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

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

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.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

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

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

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.

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

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

The prince shall go in with them when they go in. When they go out, he shall go out.

“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

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

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.

Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.