Psalms 107:41

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Give us today our daily bread.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.

Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.