Psalm 37

⁷Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

¹⁷Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the Lord.

¹⁹Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.

³¹Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

¹Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

³For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁷that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

⁵You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

⁶in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

¹⁰But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

¹¹For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

³⁵I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

³⁶yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

²Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

⁵the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

⁶Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

⁷But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.

⁸He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

³¹Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

³²For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

⁸Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

⁹Fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.

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

³⁵Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

⁷If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

¹⁹He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

¹⁴then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁵And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!

²You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

³Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be achieved.

⁷Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

⁶Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

⁷And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

²⁵Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

²²Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

¹⁷Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

⁸Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

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.

⁹Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the Lord, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

⁴³Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

¹⁰and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

⁷Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

⁸You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

⁵Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

³⁶You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

³⁷For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.

²⁵The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

²⁶It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

²²Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the Lord, and He will save you.

²⁹A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.

³²He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

¹⁹My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

²⁰for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

³¹Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

²⁶“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

²For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

²¹Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

¹³His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

²¹For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

²⁹The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

¹³When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”

²³But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

²⁴They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

⁷The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

³⁵I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

³⁶yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

⁴²The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the Lord.

¹⁶when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁵Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

³You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

¹⁶⁵Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

⁷And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

¹²And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.

¹³For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

¹⁶So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

²¹“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

⁴The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

²⁶in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

²⁶And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

¹⁰David added, “As surely as the Lord lives, the Lord Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

²⁵And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’

²⁹while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

²⁷An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

²For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

¹²Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

¹⁰Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.

²Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

³who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

⁵²Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

¹⁵He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

⁸May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

¹⁸On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

⁴Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

⁵⁶For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the Lord is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.

⁵And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁸Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

¹⁶Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure with turmoil.

¹⁷Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

⁶Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

²⁵A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.

³³The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

⁶Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

⁸My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

¹⁴The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

²⁴Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the Lord is holding his hand.

¹¹⁶Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.

¹¹⁷Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.

⁶For the Lord guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

³And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁵Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

¹⁹to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

³The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

¹⁶he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

¹³Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

²As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

³For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

³No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

¹⁴with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,

¹⁵with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

³¹So may all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

¹²These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

¹⁶And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

⁵It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

⁷The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁹He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

³⁰Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not demand it back.

¹²The Lord will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

³³The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

²²If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!

⁹For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

²⁸For the Lord loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

¹¹But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

¹⁸The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

⁹A man’s heart plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.

¹³³Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.

²⁶Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

⁹He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

⁸The Lord will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.

¹⁶For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

¹⁴The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

¹⁸If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O Lord, supports me.

⁷But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

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.

²⁷My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

³¹Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.

³²But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

⁵Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

²⁸For the Lord loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

¹³His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

²His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

²²Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the Lord will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

⁹persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

⁵It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

²¹The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.

⁷Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

³⁹I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

⁸Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

⁹Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

⁹He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

¹⁴Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

⁶By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns aside from evil.

¹⁶For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

¹⁷The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

¹⁵Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.

¹⁶And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

⁷For the Lord is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

¹⁰You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

²¹“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the Lord.

⁵who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹⁴Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.

²¹For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

⁹For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

¹³But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

¹¹But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.

¹⁸The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

⁷The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

⁶Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

¹¹A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

¹²Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.

⁷The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.

²⁹Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

³⁵The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

³¹The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

⁶These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

⁷Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

¹¹I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

³³“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

²³The steps of a man are ordered by the Lord who takes delight in his journey.

¹⁰For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

¹One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely.

²⁰So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.

⁸He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

⁹He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

⁴⁷Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.

⁴⁸Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.

¹²The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

³¹For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

⁹if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

³³Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

³⁴Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.

⁸You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

²²Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the Lord, and He will save you.

⁹For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

¹³But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

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

⁷Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

³I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

³For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

⁷Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

⁸Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

⁶All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.

⁷It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.

¹⁴I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

¹⁵But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

¹³Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

¹⁴His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

¹⁰Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

²²And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

²³Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

¹⁷And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

¹⁹For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

³³Behold, the Lord God of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

³⁴He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

⁵the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

⁶Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

¹⁷The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

¹The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.

²Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

⁶For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

⁷I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

⁵⁹While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

⁶⁰Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

¹²So the Lord blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

¹³And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

¹There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

³²The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁴⁹So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

⁵⁰and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁸in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

⁹They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

⁴Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

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

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

⁸Salvation belongs to the Lord; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah

¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

⁵Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

¹⁷If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

²⁰And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

²⁸Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

²³The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den, and when Daniel was lifted out of the den, no wounds whatsoever were found on him, because he had trusted in his God.