Psalm 107

³⁴Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

³When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”

¹Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

⁵For the Lord is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.

⁵⁰His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

⁷⁴deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

¹⁰He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

⁵Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth.

¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

⁵Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.

⁶I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

¹⁴I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the Lord. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

²⁴For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

²⁷When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

⁶My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

¹²As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

³³Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

¹⁴Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

³⁸The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

²“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

³If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

¹²The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

¹¹Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

¹²a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

¹⁸And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the Lord, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

¹⁹So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

¹⁸If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

¹²Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

¹³You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

¹⁶Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

⁸We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

⁹Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

⁹They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

⁹By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

¹⁰For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

²¹And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

²²For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

²⁰You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

²²Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

⁵²He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!

²I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

³How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation.

⁴We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the Lord and His might and the wonders He has performed.

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

²⁵for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

¹⁰Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

⁷He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,

²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

⁷⁹to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

⁸Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

¹⁶the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

⁷to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

²⁰For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

²¹What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

¹³Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

⁴³Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁰How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

²⁵because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

⁵The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

⁶The Lord brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

¹⁶“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you!

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

¹⁸Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

¹⁹The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

²³After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

¹⁴After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

¹⁵So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

²³I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

⁵And now what have I here? declares the Lord. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the Lord, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

²⁸Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

⁶Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

³Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

⁶Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord.

⁷Now when the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian,

⁶In my distress I called upon the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

⁷The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

⁸I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

¹⁶I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

¹⁶Truly, O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

¹¹As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁷I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.

¹⁸I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people,

⁸Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹This is what the Lord says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

²“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

³But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

¹³One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord as their leader.

³⁹Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

²²“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

¹A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

²For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

⁶Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

⁷both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the Lord. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

⁵and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

⁶So the Lord sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

¹³Be merciful to me, O Lord; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

³For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

¹⁹A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

²⁰so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

¹⁰I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

⁴I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

⁵Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

³⁴When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

³Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

¹³Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

⁶Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

⁴Then I called on the name of the Lord: “O Lord, deliver my soul!”

⁵The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

⁸The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

³He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

⁴who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

¹⁵He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.

³He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

⁴Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

⁵“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the Lord.

²⁸He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

²⁹Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

⁸Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁸Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”

³¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

⁵Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.

²⁵But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁴Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

¹¹Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.

¹⁷I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the Lord has done.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

¹⁷I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.

¹Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

⁷With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

¹⁷For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance

¹⁰Sing to the Lord a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

²⁶Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

⁹By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,

¹⁰“Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.”

⁵The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

⁸Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

⁹when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

²⁴How many are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

⁴Then the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

²⁴Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.

⁸lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

³The floodwaters have risen, O Lord; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.

⁷He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

²⁸My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.

¹⁰She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

⁷Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

¹⁰Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.

²⁵They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

¹⁴The Lord has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.

⁹Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

³Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.

¹⁵Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

¹⁶Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.

²⁰The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

²⁵The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

¹⁹Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

¹³Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

⁶Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

²³For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

²⁴and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

¹⁴So they cried out to the Lord: “Please, O Lord, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O Lord, have done as You pleased.”

²⁶“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

⁷You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

²³As they sailed, He fell asleep, and a windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.

²⁴The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.

⁹You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.

³⁹Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

⁴⁰“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

¹⁵Then they picked up Jonah and cast him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.

²¹Then they were willing to take Him into the boat, and at once the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

⁸Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

²¹Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the Lord for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

²⁰For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

²⁵My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

⁵Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!

¹⁰“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”

⁴⁶I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

⁹I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O Lord, do know.

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

¹⁵I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

²Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

⁷“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

⁸People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the Lord.

⁹Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

²⁷who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

¹³And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

¹⁰And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

³The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

²³All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His fierce anger.

²⁴So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

¹¹But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

¹³But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the Lord.

¹³and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

¹⁴For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

⁸who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

⁶Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

⁷The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

¹⁷The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

¹⁸I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

³For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

⁴They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

¹⁶and he said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Dig this valley full of ditches.’

¹⁷For the Lord says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’

¹⁶From there they went on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”

¹⁷Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

⁷He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.

²⁶From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

⁷He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,

⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

¹⁰Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

³⁰And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

⁵“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

¹²“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

¹²Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him,

⁷but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

²I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

²⁰As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

¹A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways!

²For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

⁹So the Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

²³After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

²⁴So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

³²In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

⁵In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

⁶Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

²⁶For the Lord saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

³Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

⁴encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.

²²And Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel throughout the reign of Jehoahaz.

²⁴He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

²¹He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

³³At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

⁸Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

⁹The Lord of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

¹⁵Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.

¹⁶Give glory to the Lord your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

³⁵But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

³⁶So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.

⁸He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.

¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

¹⁵Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

¹⁶For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.

²¹So the Lord attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

²⁰Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

²¹Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

⁵²He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

¹⁹The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

¹¹But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

⁶The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

¹⁵He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

¹⁶So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

¹⁰Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

¹¹so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

⁹Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

⁹Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.

¹²Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

¹⁸will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

¹⁹of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

¹²“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

²⁴But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.