Beat your plowshares to swords, and your pruning hooks to spears. Let the weak say, I am a mighty one.
He gives strength to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases power.Even youths are faint and weary, and young men stumbling shall stumble;but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew strength; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!
And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness. Therefore, I will rather gladly boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ might dwell on me.Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful.
To the chief musician. For the sons of Korah; A song. For the Virgins. God is our refuge and strength, very much found to be a help in distresses.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your God; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.
My strength and song is Jehovah, and it happened, He was salvation to me; this is my God and I will glorify Him; the God of my father, and I will exalt Him.
Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; yea, my heart greatly rejoices, and I will thank Him with my song.Jehovah is their strength, and He is the stronghold of the salvations of His anointed.
And likewise the Spirit also joins in to help our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray as it is right, but the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with groanings that cannot be uttered.
For God did not give a spirit of cowardice to us, but of power and of love and of self-control.
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear them, or be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is He who is going with you; He shall not fail you and not forsake you.
Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and we may find grace for timely help.
A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
The name of Jehovah is a tower of strength; the righteous one runs into it and is set on high.
Now the God of all grace, the One having called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, you having suffered a little, Himself will perfect, confirm, strengthen, establish you.
Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah; yea, He has become my salvation.
But the salvation of the righteous ones is from Jehovah; He is their strength in the time of distress.
The righteous ones cry, and Jehovah hears; and He saves them out of all their distresses.
No temptation has taken you if not a human one; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able. But with the temptation, He will also make the way out, so as for you to be able to bear it.
I have spoken these things to you that you may have peace in Me. You have distress in the world; but have courage, I have overcome the world.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Come to Me, all those laboring and being burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, “and you will find rest to your souls.” Jer. 6:16For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.
Set your way of life without moneyloving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, “Not I will leave you, not ever! Nor I will not forsake you, not ever!” Deut. 31:6So that we may boldly say, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What shall man do to me?” Psa. 118:6
Therefore we do not fail in heart, but if indeed our outward man is being consumed, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us an eternal weight of glory, surpassing moment by surpassing moment;we not looking at the things being seen, but the things not being seen; for the things being seen are not lasting, but the things not being seen are everlasting.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, and not shall the flame kindle on you.
Cast on Jehovah that given to you, and He will keep you; He will not give shaking to the righteous ones forever.
For the rest, my brothers, be made powerful in the Lord and in the might of His strength.
And not only so, but we glory also in afflictions, knowing that affliction fully works patient endurance,and patient endurance fully works proven character; and proven character, hope.And the hope not puts to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, the One given to us;
You will keep in peace, perfect peace the mind sustained by You, for he trusts in You.Trust in Jehovah forever, for in Jah Jehovah is an everlasting Rock.
being persuaded of this very thing, that the One having begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
To the chief musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. Only to God is my soul silent; from Him comes my salvation.He alone is my rock and my salvation, my strong tower; I shall not be greatly shaken.
let us hold fast the confession of the hope unyielding, for the One having promised is faithful.
O Jehovah, favor us. We have hoped in You; be their arm in the mornings, our salvation also in time of distress.
Jehovah also will be a refuge for oppressed ones, a refuge in times of distress.And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Jehovah, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; break out into singing, O mountains. For Jehovah has comforted His people and will have pity on His afflicted ones.
For I consider that the sufferings of the time now are not worthy to be compared to the coming glory to be revealed in us.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shade of the Almighty.I will say to Jehovah: my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; I will trust in Him.
So as indeed the ones suffering according to God’s will, as to a faithful Creator, let them commit their souls in doing good.
A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills; from where shall my help come?My help comes from Jehovah, the One making the heavens and the earth.
For I Jehovah your God am strengthening your right hand, who says to you, Do not fear, I will help you.
But having looked at them, Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort,the One comforting us on all our affliction, for us to be able to comfort the ones in every affliction, through the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.
that He may give you, according to the riches of His glory, by His power to be empowerd in the inward man through His Spirit,
Jehovah is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; He is my God, my Rock; I seek refuge in Him; He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
“casting all your anxiety onto Him,” because it matters to Him concerning you. LXX-Psa. 54:23; MT-Psa. 55:22
Peace I leave to you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives I give to you. Let not your heart be agitated, nor let it be fearful.
If I say: Surely the darkness shall fall on me; even the night shall be light around me.Even the darkness will not be dark from You, but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light.
And Jehovah shall always guide you, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of waters which do not prove to be deceiving.
I will come in the strength of the Lord Jehovah; I will speak of Your righteousness, of Yours alone.
The Lord Jehovah has given to Me the tongue of learned ones, to know to help the weary with a word. He arouses in the morning; He wakens the ear to Me, to hear as the learned ones.
Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
O my soul, why are you cast down? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God, for I yet thank Him for the salvations of my face and my God.
The God of old is a refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He shall cast the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy!
Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful.
But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing of Your kindness in the morning. For You have been my strong tower, and my refuge in the day of my trouble.
being empowered with all power according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joy;
Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; yea, my heart greatly rejoices, and I will thank Him with my song.
Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and by petition with thanksgivings, let your requests be made known to God;and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart faints; Oh lead me into the Rock higher than I.For You have been a refuge, a strong tower before the enemy.
Stretch out Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses to save me.For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding.
Now to the One being able to do beyond all things exceedingly above all of which we ask or think, according to the power of the One working in us,
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and brave. Do not be terrified or discouraged, for Jehovah your God is with you in all places where you go.
If I walk in the midst of distress, You give me life; You send out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand delivers me.
Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah; yea, He has become my salvation.And you shall draw waters out of the wells of salvation with joy.
And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope, in power of the Holy Spirit.
When you lie down, you shall not dread; yea, you shall lie down and your sleep shall be sweet.
I will both lie down in peace and sleep; for You alone, O Jehovah, make me dwell in safety.
But now so says Jehovah who created you, O Jacob; and He who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are to Me.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I earnestly seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and weary land without water.so as I have seen you in the sanctuary, seeing Your power and Your glory.
Little children, you are of God and have overcome them, because the One in you is greater than the one in the world.
And my God will fill your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. But you were not willing.
A Song of Ascents. They who trust in Jehovah shall be like Mount Zion; it is not shaken; it remains forever.The mountains are all around her. Jerusalem; and Jehovah is all around His people, from this time and forever.
Therefore straighten up the having been weakened hands “and the having been enfeebled knees;”“and make straight tracks for your feet,” that the lame one not be turned aside, but rather healed. Isa. 35:3; Prov. 4:26
Whom is to me in Heaven? And I do not desire any on earth besides You.My flesh and my heart waste away; God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reason out anything as being out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,
Afflicted ones and the needy ones seek water, and there is not any; their tongue is parched for thirst. I, Jehovah will answer them, the God of Israel; I will not leave them.
For in the day of evil He shall hide me in His shelter; in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.Therefore do not be anxious into the morrow. For the morrow will be anxious of itself. Sufficient to each day is its own badness.
For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord’s.
And God is able to make all grace to abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;
Jehovah keeps you from all evil; He shall keep your soul.Jehovah shall keep your going out, and your coming in, from now on and till forever.
For a Child is born; to us, a Son is given; and the dominion is on His shoulder; and His name is called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
For we do not have a high priest not being able to sympathize with our infirmities, but One having been tried according in all things according to our likeness, apart from sin.Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and we may find grace for timely help.
For you received not a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba! Father!
Surely, God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer and His mercy from me!
I, even I am He comforting you. Who are you, that you should fear from man? He shall die! And from the son of man? He is given as grass.
O my soul, why are you cast down and moan within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvations of His presence.O my God, my soul is cast down within me; on account of this I remember You from Jordan-land and from the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.
and He said, Listen, all Judah, and the one living in Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat; so says Jehovah to you, You shall not fear and not be terrified of the face of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but it is God’s.
for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure.
These trust in the chariot, and these in horses, but we will make mention in the name of Jehovah our God.They have bowed down and have fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you go right, or when you go left.
Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his refuge.For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters. It sends out its roots by the stream, and it will not fear when the heat comes; but its foliage will be green; and it is not anxious in the year of drought, and not will it cease from producing fruit.
And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies,those encircling me , and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to Jehovah.
And I have put My words in Your mouth, and covered you in the shade of My hand, to plant the heavens and found the earth, and to say to Zion, You are My people.
the ones in the power of God being guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God to the demolition of strongholds,
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we glory on the hope of the glory of God.
Yet I was continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand.You shall guide me by Your counsel; and afterward You will take me to glory.
Since you were precious in My eyes, you are honored, and I love you, and I give men instead of you; and peoples instead of your soul.Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and I will gather you from the west.
which we have as an anchor of the soul, both certain and sure, and entering into the inner side of the veil, Lev. 16:12
The thief does not come except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly.
Love quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
For the rest, brothers, rejoice! Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves, think the same thing, be at peace; and the God of love and of peace will be with you.
Do not dread, nor be afraid. Have I not declared and made you hear since then? So you are My witnesses: Is there a God besides Me? Yea, there is not one. I have not known a Rock.
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward.For you have need of enduring patience, that having done the will of God you may obtain the promise.
There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones in Christ Jesus, not walking according to flesh, but according to Spirit.
Because of this, take up the full armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having worked out all things, to stand.
With His feathers He will cover you, and under His wings you shall seek refuge; His truth is a shield and buckler.