Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. read more. He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.' Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,

Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

"Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns!"

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children; to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts. read more. Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens. read more. Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening. Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods. Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps; read more. who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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;

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?

"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. read more. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

"For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

"For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. read more. Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. read more. For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more. But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation; but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'" David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. read more. It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today."

I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? read more. You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. read more. He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? read more. Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?' "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it? It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know. read more. You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.' I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, read more. he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. read more. Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.

and you shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel."

And not a hair of your head will perish.

"For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads."

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? read more. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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

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

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the earth.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of Armies; 'and in this place will I give peace,' says Yahweh of Armies."

"Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,