Psalms 71:11

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

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

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?