Psalms 74:19

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

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

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

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

“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.”

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

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

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

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

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.