Psalms 49:16

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

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

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

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

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

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

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

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

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

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.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

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.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

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

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

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.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

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.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.