Ruth 1:3

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

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.”

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him.

The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we live and meet with you is too small for us.

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

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

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

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

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

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

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

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

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.