'Servant' in the Bible

May your face shine on your servant; in your gracious love, deliver me.

Let those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and rejoice! Let them continuously say, "Magnify the LORD, who delights in giving peace to his servant."

My tongue will declare your righteousness and praise you all day long. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.

and do not ignore your servant, because I am in distress. Hurry to answer me!

Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold.

Protect me, for I am faithful; My God, deliver your servant who trusts in you.

Your servant rejoices, because, Lord, I set my hope on you.

Return to me and have mercy on me; clothe your servant with your strength and deliver the son of your maid servant.

I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.

I have found my servant David; I have anointed him with my sacred oil,

You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servant! I carry inside me all the insults of many people,

You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

He sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Indeed, he remembered his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

They will curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, while your servant rejoices.

LORD, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant. I am the son of your handmaid. You have released my bonds.

Deal kindly with your servant so I may live and keep your word.

Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Confirm your promise to your servant, which is for those who fear you.

Remember what you said to your servant, by which you caused me to hope.

LORD, you have dealt well with your servant, according to your word.

May your gracious love comfort me in accordance with your promise to your servant.

How many days must your servant endure this? When will you judge those who persecute me?

Back up your servant in a positive way; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Act toward your servant consistent with your gracious love, and teach me your statutes.

Since I am your servant, give me understanding, so I will know your decrees.

Show favor to your servant, and teach me your statutes.

Your word is very pure, and your servant loves it.

I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come find your servant, for I do not forget your commands. A Song of Ascents

Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

For the sake of your servant David, don't turn away the face of your anointed one.

to Israel his servant as a possession, for his gracious love is everlasting

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

Because of your gracious love, you will cut off my enemies. You will destroy all who oppose me, for I am your servant. Davidic

to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords.

Whoever troubles his household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise.

It's better to be unimportant, yet have a servant, than to pretend to be important, but lack food.

The king approves the wise servant, but he is angry at anyone who acts shamefully.

A prudent servant will rule in place of a disgraceful son and will share in the inheritance among brothers.

It's not fitting for a fool to live in luxury; neither is it for a servant to rule over princes.

You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.

By mere words a servant will not be corrected; even though he understands, there will be no response.

If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.

Don't lie about a servant to his master, or that servant will curse you and you will pay for it.

an unloved woman when she finds a husband, and a servant girl who inherits from her mistress.

Don't listen to everything that is spoken you may hear your servant cursing you,

Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a warning for Egypt and Ethiopia,

"At that time, I'll call for my servant, Hilkiah's son Eliakim,

"because I will defend this city and deliver it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!'"

I'll save you and this city from the king of Assyria, and I'll defend this city, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.

"But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham

you whom I encouraged from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, and told you, "You're my servant, I've chosen you and haven't cast you aside.'

"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I've placed my Spirit upon him; and he'll deliver his justice throughout the world.

Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger I am sending? Who is blind like the one committed to me, or blind like the LORD's servant?

"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and trust me and understand that I am the One. Before me no God was formed, nor will there be one after me.

"But now listen, Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen:

This what the LORD says, the one who made you, formed you from the womb, and who will help you: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant, and Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

"Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you; you are a servant to me. Israel, you must not mislead me.

For the sake of Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen, I've called you, and he has established you with a name, although you have not acknowledged me.

"Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! With happy shouts, announce and proclaim this to the ends of the earth: Say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!'

He said to me: "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will glorify myself.'

"And now, says the LORD, who formed you from the womb as his servant to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him and I am honored in the LORD's sight and my God has been my help

he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Israel and bring back those of Jacob I have preserved. I'll also make you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.

"This is what my Lord says the LORD your Redeemer, O Israel, and his Holy One to one despised by people, to those abhorred as a nation, to the servant of rulers: "Kings see and arise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, the one who has chosen you."

Who among you fears the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant, who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

"Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

Then they remembered the days of old, of Moses his servant. Where is the one who brought up out of the sea the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit among them,

"Is Israel a slave, or was he born a servant? Why then has he become plunder?

I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the LORD, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.

Now I've given all these lands to my servant, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I've even given him the wild animals to serve him.

"My servant Jacob, don't be afraid,' declares the LORD, "and Israel, don't be dismayed. For I'll deliver you from a distant place and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return. He will be undisturbed and secure, and no one will cause him to fear.

then my covenant with my servant David might also be broken so that he wouldn't have a son sitting on his throne, and so also with my servants the Levitical priests.

As the heavenly bodies cannot be counted, and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I'll multiply the descendants of my servant David and the descendants of Levi who serve me.'"

then I might reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David by not taking some of his descendants as rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I'll restore their fortunes, and I'll have compassion on them.'"

Then say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I'm going to send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll take him and set his throne over these stones that I've buried, and he will spread his canopy over them.

"As for you, my servant Jacob, don't be afraid, and Israel, don't be dismayed. For I'll deliver you from a distant place, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return. He will be undisturbed and secure, and no one will cause him to fear.

"As for you, my servant Jacob, don't be afraid, and Israel, don't be dismayed," declares the LORD, "for I am with you. Indeed, I'll make an end of all the nations where I scattered you; but I won't make an end of you! I'll discipline you justly, but I'll certainly not leave you unpunished."

"When I gather the house of Israel from the nations to which I've scattered them, I will show them my holiness before the watching world, and they will live on the land that I gave to my servant Jacob. They will live in safety in the land, building houses and planting vineyards. They'll live in safety while I judge everyone who maligns them among those who surround them. At that time they'll learn that I am the LORD their God.'"

""Then I'll install one shepherd for them my servant David and he will feed them, will be there for them, and will serve as their shepherd.

I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will rule among them as Prince.' I, the LORD, have spoken this.

"""My servant King David will be there for them, and one shepherd will be appointed for them. They will live according to my decrees, keep my regulations, and practice them.

They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob and on which your ancestors lived. They will live in that land, along with their children and grandchildren, forever. David my servant will be their everlasting leader.

But if he gives a gift to any of his servants, it is to belong to the servant until the Year of Release, at which time it is to be returned to the Regent Prince. His inheritance is to belong only to his sons.

As he approached where Daniel was in the pit, he cried out to him in a voice filled with anguish, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve constantly, been able to deliver you from the lions?"

And all Israel flouted your Law, turning aside from it and not obeying your voice. Because we've sinned against him, the curse has been poured upon us, along with the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God.

"So now, O God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his requests, and look with favor on your desolate sanctuary, for the sake of the Lord.

So how can a servant of my lord talk with someone like you, sir? And as for me, there's no strength left in me, and I can hardly breathe.'

It has been determined: The woman is unveiled and sent away, her servant girls mourn. Beating their breasts, they whimper like doves.

On that day,' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,' declares the LORD, "and I will set you in place like a signet ring. For I have chosen you,' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies."

""Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and those companions of yours who sit with you, for these men are a sign that I am presenting my servant, the Branch.

"He will say, "I am no mere prophet. A servant of mankind am I, because a man dedicated to this have I been from my youth.'

"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?'

"Remember the Law of Moses my servant that I gave him at Horeb for all Israel both the decrees and laws.

"Sir, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and in terrible pain."

The centurion replied, "Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed,

because I, too, am a man under authority and I have soldiers under me. I say to one of them "Go' and he goes, to another "Come' and he comes, and to my servant "Do this' and he does it."

"Go," Jesus told the centurion, "and it will be done for you, just as you have believed." And his servant was healed that very hour.

"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love, and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.