Psalms 80:18

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

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

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

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

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

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.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,