I
sing to Him, I sing praises to Him; I meditate
on and talk of all His wondrous works and devoutly
praise them! [1] I stand still and consider the wondrous works
of Jahuwah.
[2] I make the voice of thanksgiving heard
and tell of all Jahuwah’s wondrous works.
[3] O Jahuwah, You have taught me from
my youth, and hitherto have I declared Your
wondrous works. [4] We give praise and thanks to You, O Jahuwah, we praise and
give thanks; Your wondrous works declare that
Your Name is near and they who invoke Your Name
rehearse Your wonders.
[5] I believe on, rely on, and adhere to
Him for His wondrous works.
[6] I understand the way of Your precepts;
so I meditate on and talk of Your wondrous works. [7] On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and Your wondrous
works I put forth, speak, sing, study and ponder. [8] I proclaim loudly, with forcefulness of expression
and intensity of emotion, Jahuwah 's mighty
acts; I broadcast all his praises.
[9]
Psalm
78 A skillful song, or a didactic or
reflective poem, of Asaph.
1
Because I am one of Jahuwah’s people, I give
ear to His teaching; I incline my ears to the
words of His mouth. 2 He opens His mouth in
parables; He utters dark sayings of old that
hide important truth--3 Which I have heard and
known, and my fathers have told me. 4 I do not
hide them from my children. I tell of the praiseworthy
deeds of Jahuwah, and His might, and the wonderful
works that He has performed.
5
For He established express precepts in Jacob
and appointed a law in Yisra’el, commanding
me that I should make the great facts of Jahuwah's
dealings with Yisra’el known. 6 That the generation
to come might know them, that the children still
to be born might arise and recount them to their
children, 7 That they might set their hope in
Jahuwah and not forget the works of Jahuwah,
but might keep His commandments 8 And might
not be as their fathers--a stubborn and rebellious
generation, a generation that set not their
hearts aright nor prepared their hearts to know
Jahuwah, and whose spirits were not steadfast
and faithful to Jahuwah. 9 The children of Ephraim
were armed and carrying bows, yet they turned
back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not
the covenant of Jahuwah and refused to walk
according to His law and forgot His works and
His wonders that He had shown them. 12 Marvelous
things did He in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan where
Pharaoh resided.
13
He divided the Red Sea and caused them to pass
through it, and He made the waters stand like
a heap. 14 In the daytime also He led them with
a pillar of cloud and all the night with a light
of fire. 15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the
deep. 16 He brought streams also out of the
rock at Rephidim, a resting place, and Kadesh,
a consecrated place, and caused waters to run
down like rivers.
17
Yet they still went on to go on a way that was
against Him by rebelling and being disobedient
against the Most High in the wilderness; the
land of drought. 18 And they tempted Jahuwah
in their hearts by asking for food according
to their selfish desire and appetite. 19 Yes,
they spoke against Jahuwah; they said, Can Jahuwah
furnish the food for a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He did smite the rock so that waters
gushed out and the streams overflowed; but can
He give bread also? Can He provide flesh for
His people?
21
Therefore, when Jahuwah heard, He was full of
wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, His
anger mounted up against Yisra’el, 22 because
they relied not on Him; they adhered not to
Him and they trusted not in Jahuwah’s salvation;
His power to save in every aspect.
23
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened
the doors of heaven; 24 And He rained down upon
them manna to eat and gave them heaven's grain.
25 Everyone ate the bread of the mighty; angels'
food; Jahuwah sent them meat in abundance. 26
He let forth the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by His power He guided the south wind. 27
He rained flesh also upon them like the dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
28 And He let the birds fall in the midst of
their camp, round about their tents. 29 So they
ate and were well filled; He gave them what
they craved and lusted after. 30 But scarce
had they stilled their craving, and while their
meat was yet in their mouths, 31 The wrath of
Jahuwah came upon them and slew the strongest
and sturdiest of them and smote down Yisra’el's
chosen youth.
32
In spite of all this, they sinned still more,
for they relied not on and adhered not to Him
for His wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days
He consumed like a breath in emptiness, falsity,
and futility and their years in terror and sudden
haste. 34 When He slew some of them, the remainder
inquired after Him diligently, and they repented
and sincerely sought Jahuwah for a time. 35
And they earnestly remembered that Jahuwah was
their Rock, and the Most High was their Redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their
mouths and lied to Him with their tongues. 37
For their hearts were not right or sincere with
Him, neither were they faithful and steadfast
to His covenant. 38 But He, full of merciful
compassion, forgave their iniquity and destroyed
them not; yes, many a time He turned His anger
away and did not stir up all His wrath and indignation.
39
For He [earnestly] remembered that they were
but flesh, a wind that goes and does not return.
40 How often they defied and rebelled against
Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the
desert! 41 And time and again they turned back
and tempted Jahuwah, provoking and incensing
the Set-Apart One of Yisra’el.
42
They remembered not seriously the miracles
of the working of His hand
[10] , nor the day when He delivered them
from the enemy, 43 How He wrought His miracles
in Egypt and His wonders in the field of Zoan
where Pharaoh resided 44 And turned their rivers
into blood, and their streams, so that they
could not drink from them. 45 He sent swarms
of venomous flies among them which devoured
them, and frogs which destroyed them. 46 He
gave also their crops to the caterpillar and
the fruit of their labor to the locust. 47 He
destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore
trees with frost and great chunks of ice. 48
He caused them to shut up their cattle or gave
them up also to the hail and their flocks to
hot thunderbolts. 49 He let loose upon them
the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation
and distress, by sending a mission of
angels of calamity and woe
[11] among them.
50
He leveled and made a straight path
[12] for His anger to give it free
course
[13] ; He did not spare the Egyptian families
from death but gave their beasts over to the
pestilence and the life of their eldest over
to the plague. 51 He smote all the firstborn
in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the
tents of the land of the sons of Ham.
52
But [Jahuwah] led His own people forth like
sheep and guided them with a shepherd's care
like a flock in the wilderness. 53 And He led
them on safely and in confident trust, so that
they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their
enemies. 54 And He brought them to His set-apart
border, the border of Canaan His sanctuary,
even to Mount Tsion which His right hand had
acquired.
55
He drove out the nations also before Yisra’el
and allotted their land as a heritage, measured
out and partitioned; and He made the tribes
of Yisra’el to dwell in the tents of those dispossessed.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked and rebelled
against the Most High Mighty One and kept not
His testimonies. 57 But they turned back and
dealt covertly and fraudulently like their fathers;
they were twisted like a warped and deceitful
bow that will not respond to the archer's aim;
they let down and relaxed their hands. 58 For
they provoked Him to righteous anger with their
high places for idol worship and moved Him to
jealousy with their graven images. 59 When Jahuwah
heard this, He was full of wrath; and He utterly
rejected Yisra’el, greatly abhorring and loathing
her ways, 60 So that He forsook the tabernacle
at Shiloh, the tent in which He had dwelt among
men and never returned to it again, 61 And delivered
His strength and power, the Ark of the Covenant,
into captivity, and His glory into the hands
of the Philistines.
62
He gave His people over also to the sword and
was wroth with His heritage; Yisra’el. 63 The
fire of war devoured their young men, and their
bereaved virgins were not praised in a wedding
song. 64 Their priests, Hophni and Phinehas,
fell by the sword, and their widows made no
lamentation for the bodies came not back from
the scene of battle, and the widow of Phinehas
also died that day.
65
Then Jahuwah awakened as from sleep, as a strong
man whose consciousness of power is heightened
by wine. 66 And He smote His adversaries in
the back as they fled; He put them to lasting
shame and reproach. 67 Moreover, He rejected
the tent of Joseph and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim in which the tabernacle had been accustomed
to stand. 68 But He chose the tribe of Judah
as Yisra’el's leader, Mount Tsion, which He
loved to replace Shiloh as His capital. 69 And
He built His Set-Apart Tabernacle exalted like
the heights of the heavens and like the earth
which He established forever.
70
He chose me as His servant and took me from
Babylon; 71 From a secular job He brought me
to be the shepherd of Jacob His people, of Yisra’el
His inheritance. 72 So I am their shepherd with
an upright heart; I lead them forth by the understanding,
discernment, comprehension and skillfulness
which controls my hands.
Daniel
2
Blessed
be the name of Jahuwah forever and ever! For
wisdom and might are His! 21 He changes the
times and the seasons; He removes kings and
sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and
knowledge to those who have understanding!
22
He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows
what is in the darkness, and the light dwells
with Him! 23 I thank You and praise You, O Mighty
One of my fathers, Who has given me wisdom and
might and has made known to me now what I desired
of You, for You have made known to me the solution
to my problems.
Psalm
106
1
Hallelujah! Thank JAHUWAH! And why? Because
he's good, because his love lasts.
3
I’m advancing, making progress and moving straight
on because I do what is right, I form the habit
of justice. 4 Remember me, Jahuwah, when you
enjoy your people; include me when you save
them; 5 I want to see your chosen succeed, celebrate
with your celebrating nation, join the Hallelujahs
of your pride and joy!
6
We've sinned a lot, both we and our parents;
We've fallen short, hurt a lot of people. 7
After our parents left Egypt, they took your
wonders for granted, forgot your great and wonderful
love. They were barely beyond the Red Sea when
they defied the High Mighty One 8 -the very
place he saved them! -the place he revealed
his amazing power! 9 He rebuked the Red Sea
so that it dried up on the spot -he paraded
them right through! -no one so much as got wet
feet! 10 He saved them from a life of oppression,
pried them loose from the grip of the enemy.
11 Then the waters flowed back on their oppressors;
there wasn't a single survivor.
12
Then they believed his words were true and broke
out in songs of praise. 13 But it wasn't long
before they forgot the whole thing and wouldn't
wait to be told what to do. 14 They only cared
about pleasing themselves in that desert, provoked
Jahuwah with their insistent demands. 15 He
gave them exactly what they asked for-- but
along with it they got an empty heart.
16
One day in camp some grew jealous of Moshè,
also of Aaron, Set-Apart priest of Jahuwah.
17
The ground opened and swallowed Dathan, then
buried Abiram's gang. 18 Fire flared against
that rebel crew and torched them to a cinder.
19
They cast in metal a bull calf at Horeb and
worshiped the statue they'd made. 20 They traded
the Splendour for a cheap piece of sculpture--a
grass-chewing bull! 21 They forgot Jahuwah,
their very own Savior, who turned things around
in Egypt, 22 Who created a world of wonders
in the Land of Ham, who gave that stunning performance
at the Red Sea.
23
Fed up, Jahuwah decided to get rid of them--
and except for Moshè, his chosen, he would have.
But Moshè stood in the gap and deflected Jahuwah's
anger, prevented it from destroying them utterly.
24 They went on to reject the Blessed Land,
didn't believe a word of what Jahuwah promised.
25
They found fault with the life they had
and
turned a deaf ear to Jahuwah’s voice. 26 Exasperated,
Jahuwah swore that he'd lay them low in the
desert, 27 scattering their children hither
and yon, strewing them all over the earth.
28
Then they linked up with Baal Peor, attending
funeral banquets and eating idol food. 29 That
made Jahuwah so angry that a plague spread through
their ranks; 30 Phinehas stood up and pled their
case and the plague was stopped. 31 This was
counted to his credit; his descendants will
never forget it.
32
They angered Jahuwah again at Meribah Springs;
this time Moshè got mixed up in their evil;
33 because they defied Jahuwah yet again, Moshè
exploded and lost his temper.
34
They didn't wipe out those unrighteous cultures
as ordered by Jahuwah; 35 Instead they intermarried
with the heathen, and in time became just like
them. 36 They worshiped their idols, were
caught in the trap of idols.
[14] 37 They sacrificed their sons and
daughters at the altars of demon gods. 38 They
slit the throats of their babies, murdered their
infant girls and boys. They offered their babies
to Canaan's gods; the blood of their babies
stained the land.
39
Their way of life stank to high heaven; they
lived like whores. 40 And Jahuwah was furious--a
wildfire anger; he couldn't stand even to look
at his people. 41 He turned them over to the
heathen so that the people who hated them ruled
them. 42 Their enemies made life hard for them;
they were tyrannized under that rule. 43 Over
and over Jahuwah rescued them, but they never
learned-- until finally their sins destroyed
them.
44
Still, when Jahuwah saw the trouble they were
in and heard their cries for help, 45 He remembered
his Covenant with them, and, immense with love,
took them by the hand.
46
He poured out his mercy on them while their
captors looked on, amazed. 47 Save us, Jahuwah,
our Mighty One! Gather us back out of exile
So we can give thanks to your Set-Apart name
and join in the glory when you are praised!
48
Blessed be Jahuwah, Yisra’el's Mighty One! Bless
now, bless always! Oh! Let everyone say let
it be so! Hallelujah!
Psalm
145
13
Jahuwah’s kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and His dominion endures throughout all generations.
14
Jahuwah upholds all those of His own who are
falling and raises up all those who are bowed
down.
15
The eyes of all wait for Jahuwah looking, watching,
and expecting and He gives them their food in
due season. 16 He opens His hand and satisfies
every living thing with favor.
17
Jahuwah is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways
and gracious and merciful in all His works.
18 Jahuwah is near to me when I call upon Him,
to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth.
19 He fulfills the desires of those who reverently
and worshipfully fear Him; He also will hear
their cry and will save them. 20 Jahuwah preserves
me because I show my love for Him by obeying
His commandments, but all the wicked He destroys.
Luke
1
49
My mouth shall speak the praise of Jahuwah;
and let all flesh bless affectionately and gratefully
praise His set-apart name forever and ever.
50
His mercy flows in wave after wave on those
who are in awe before him. 51 He bared his arm
and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing
braggarts. 52 He knocked tyrants off their high
horses, pulled victims out of the mud.
53
The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the
callous rich were left out in the cold.
54
He embraced his chosen child, Yisra’el; he remembered
and piled on the mercies, piled
them
high. 55 It's exactly what he promised, beginning
with Abraham and right up to now.
68
Blessed be Jahuwah, the Mighty One of Yisra’el;
he came and set his people free. 69 He set the
power of salvation in the center of our lives,
and in the very house of David his servant,
70 Just as he promised long ago through the
preaching of his set-apart prophets: 71 Deliverance
from our enemies and every hateful hand; 72
Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do
what he said he'd do, 73 What he swore to our
father Abraham—74 a clean rescue from the enemy
camp, so we can worship him without a care in
the world, 75 made set-apart before him as long
as we live.
77
Present the offer of salvation to his people,
the forgiveness of their sins. 78 Through the
heartfelt mercies of our Mighty One, Jahuwah’s
Light Rising will break in upon us, 79 shining
on those in the darkness, those sitting in the
shadow of death, then showing us the way, one
foot at a time, down the path of peace.
2
Samuel 7
4
But that night, the word of Jahuwah came to
Nathan saying, 5 "Go and tell my servant
David: This is Jahuwah's word on the matter:
You're going to build a "house' for me
to live in? 6 Why, I haven't lived in a "house'
from the time I brought the children of Yisra’el
up from Egypt till now. All that time I've moved
about with nothing but a tent. 7 And in all
my travels with Yisra’el, did I ever say to
any of the leaders I commanded to shepherd Yisra’el,
"Why haven't you built me a house of cedar?'
8
"So here is what you are to tell my servant
David: Jahuwah the Commander-of-the-Angel-Armies
has this word for you: I took you from the pasture,
tagging along after sheep, and made you prince
over my people Yisra’el. 9 I was with you everywhere
you went and mowed your enemies down before
you. Now I'm making you famous, to be ranked
with the great names on earth. 10 And I'm going
to set aside a place for my people Yisra’el
and plant them there so they'll have their own
home and not be knocked around any more. Nor
will evil men afflict you as they always have,
11 even during the days I set judges over my
people Yisra’el. Finally, I'm going to give
you peace from all your enemies.
"Furthermore,
Jahuwah has this message for you: Jahuwah himself
will build you a house! 12 When your life is
complete and you're buried with your ancestors,
then I'll raise up your child, your own flesh
and blood, to succeed you, and I'll firmly establish
his rule. 13 He will build a house to honor
me, and I will guarantee his kingdom's rule
permanently. 14 I'll be a father to him, and
he'll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I'll
discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls
and obstacles of this mortal life. 15 But I'll
never remove my gracious love from him, as I
removed it from Saul, who preceded you and whom
I most certainly did remove. 16 Your family
and your kingdom are permanently secured. I'm
keeping my eye on them! And your royal throne
will always be there, rock solid."
Job
5
9
Jahuwah is famous for great and unexpected acts;
there's no end to his surprises.
10
He gives rain, for instance, across the wide
earth, sends water to irrigate the fields. 11
He raises up the down-and-out, gives firm footing
to those sinking in grief.
12
He aborts the schemes of conniving crooks, so
that none of their plots come to term. 13 He
catches the know-it--alls in their conspiracies--
all that intricate intrigue swept out with the
trash! 14 Suddenly they're disoriented, plunged
into darkness; they can't see to put one foot
in front of the other.
15
But the downtrodden are saved by Jahuwah, saved
from the murderous plots, saved from the iron
fist. 16 And so the poor continue to hope, while
injustice is bound and gagged.
17
"So, what a blessing when Jahuwah steps
in and corrects you! Mind you, don't despise
the discipline of Almighty Jahuwah! 18 True,
he wounds, but he also dresses the wound; the
same hand that hurts you, heals you.
19
From one disaster after another he delivers
you; no matter what the calamity, the evil can't
touch you-- 20 "In famine, he'll keep you
from starving, in war, from being gutted by
the sword. 21 You'll be protected from vicious
gossip and live fearless through any catastrophe.
22 You'll shrug off disaster and famine, and
stroll fearlessly among wild animals. 23 You'll
be on good terms with rocks and mountains; wild
animals will become your good friends.
24
You'll know that your place on earth is safe,
you'll look over your goods and find nothing
amiss. 25 You'll see your children grow up,
your family lovely and lissome as orchard grass.
26 You'll arrive at your grave ripe with many
good years, like sheaves of golden grain at
harvest.
27
"Yes, this is the way things are--my word
of honor! Take it to heart and you won't go
wrong."
Jawshar
58:17-23
And
all this people assembled and came unto Seir
to assist the children of Esau in their battle,
and this camp was very large and heavy with
people, numerous as the sand of the sea, about
eight hundred thousand men, infantry and cavalry,
and all these troops went down to Egypt to fight
with the sons of Jacob, and they encamped by
Rameses.
And
Joseph went forth with his brethren with the
mighty men of Egypt, about six hundred men,
and they fought with them in the land of Rameses;
and the sons of Jacob at that time again fought
with the children of Esau, in the fiftieth year
of the sons of Jacob going down to Egypt, that
is the thirtieth year of the reign of Bela over
the children of Esau in Seir.
And
the Lord gave all the mighty men of Esau and
the children of the east into the hand of Joseph
and his brethren, and the people of the children
of Esau and the children of the east were smitten
before Joseph.
And
of the people of Esau and the children of the
east that were slain, there fell before the
sons of Jacob about two hundred thousand men,
and their king Bela the son of Beor fell with
them in the battle, and when the children of
Esau saw that their king had fallen in battle
and was dead, their hands became weak in the
combat.
And
Joseph and his brethren and all Egypt were still
smiting the people of the house of Esau, and
all Esau's people were afraid of the sons of
Jacob and fled from before them.
And
Joseph and his brethren and all Egypt pursued
them a day's journey, and they slew yet from
them about three hundred men, continuing to
smite them in the road; and they afterward turned
back from them.
And
Joseph and all his brethren returned to Egypt,
not one man was missing from them, but of the
Egyptians there fell twelve men.
Jawshar
77:29-37
Zipporah
said to her father Reuel, No person inquires
or seeks after the Hebrew man, whom you did
bind in prison now ten years.
Now
therefore, if it seem good in your sight, let
us send and see whether he is living or dead,
but her father knew not that she had supported
him.
And
Reuel her father answered and said to her, Has
ever such a thing happened that a man should
be shut up in a prison without food for ten
years, and that he should live?
And
Zipporah answered her father, saying, Surely
you have heard that the Mighty One of the Hebrews
is great and awful, and does wonders for them
at all times.
He
it was who delivered Abraham from Ur of the
Chaldeans, and Isaac from the sword of his father,
and Jacob from the angel of Jahuwah who wrestled
with him at the ford of Jabbuk.
Also
with this man has he done many things, he delivered
him from the river in Egypt and from the sword
of Pharaoh, and from the children of Cush, so
also can he deliver him from famine and make
him live.
And
the thing seemed good in the sight of Reuel,
and he did according to the word of his daughter,
and sent to the dungeon to ascertain what became
of Moshe`.
And
he saw, and behold the man Moses was living
in the dungeon, standing upon his feet, praising
and praying to the Mighty One of his ancestors.
And
Reuel commanded Moshe` to be brought out of
the dungeon, so they shaved him and he changed
his prison garments and ate bread.
Jawshar
(Jasher: pronounced Yawshar) 89:1-22
Then
spoke Joshua this song, on the day that Jahuwah
had given the Amorites into the hand of Joshua
and the children of Yisra’el, and he said in
the sight of all Yisra’el,
You
have done mighty things, O Jahuwah, you have
performed great deeds; who is like unto you?
my lips shall sing to your name.
My
goodness and my fortress, my high tower, I sing
a new song unto you, with thanksgiving I sing
to you, you art the strength of my salvation.
All
the kings of the earth shall praise you, the
princes of the world shall sing to you, the
children of Yisra’el shall rejoice in your salvation,
they shall sing and praise your power.
To
you, O Jahuwah, did we confide; we said you
art our Might Creator, for you are our shelter
and strong tower against our enemies.
To
you we cried and were not ashamed, in you we
trusted and were delivered; when we cried unto
you, you did hear our voice, you did deliver
our souls from the sword, you did show unto
us your grace, you did give unto us your salvation,
you did rejoice our hearts with your strength.
You
did go forth for our salvation, with your arm
you did redeem your people; you did answer us
from the heavens of your holiness, you did save
us from ten thousands of people.
The
sun and moon stood still in heaven, and you
did stand in your wrath against our oppressors
and did command your judgments over them.
All
the princes of the earth stood up, the kings
of the nations had gathered themselves together,
they were not moved at your presence, they desired
your battles.
You
did rise against them in your anger, and did
bring down your wrath upon them; you did destroy
them in your anger, and cut them off in your
heart.
Nations
have been consumed with your fury, kingdoms
have declined because of your wrath, you did
wound kings in the day of your anger.
You
did pour out your fury upon them, your wrathful
anger took hold of them; you did turn their
iniquity upon them, and did cut them off in
their wickedness.
They
did spread a trap, they fell therein, in the
net they hid, their foot was caught.
Your
hand was ready for all your enemies who said,
Through their sword they possessed the land,
through their arm they dwelt in the city; you
did fill their faces with shame, you did bring
their horns down to the ground, you did terrify
them in your wrath, and did destroy them
in your anger.
The
earth trembled and shook at the sound of your
storm over them, you did not withhold their
souls from death, and did bring down their lives
to the grave.
You
did pursue them in your storm, you did consume
them in your whirlwind, you did turn their rain
into hail, they fell in deep pits so that they
could not rise.
Their
carcasses were like rubbish cast out in the
middle of the streets.
They
were consumed and destroyed in your anger, you
did save your people with your might.
Therefore
our hearts rejoice in you, our souls exalt in
your salvation.
Our
tongues shall relate your might, we will sing
and praise your wondrous works.
For
you did save us from our enemies, you did deliver
us from those who rose up against us, you did
destroy them from before us and depress them
beneath our feet.
Thus
shall all your enemies perish O Jahuwah, and
the wicked shall be like chaff driven by the
wind, and your beloved shall be like trees planted
by the waters.
[13] When Jahuwah makes our path level and straight
it gives us “free course.”
[14] Idols are a snare that the righteous can be
caught in.
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