Song of Solomon 3:2

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

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

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

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.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

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

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

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

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

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.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”