Psalms 73:2

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

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

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

I said to you, “I am Yahweh your God. You shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.” But you have not listened to my voice.’ ”

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

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

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

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

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.