Psalms 71:5

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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

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

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.

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;

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

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

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

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

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

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

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.

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.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

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

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

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.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

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

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

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

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

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

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.