Psalms 89:50

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.

“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

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.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”

Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

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

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”