For You have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty; You shall deliver them from wicked men; [You have been] a shelter for them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

supporting truth, and keeping peace; for on You, O Lord,

they have trusted with confidence forever, the great, eternal God;

saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to Him; and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.

Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths, from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.

And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord your God commanded His servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you, and we feared very much for our lives because of you, and [therefore] we did this thing.

And now, behold, we [are] in your power; do to us as it is pleasing to you, and as it seems [good] to you.

And the inhabitants of Gibeon sent to Joshua into the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your hands from your servants: come up quickly to us, and help us, and rescue us; for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.

Be firm, I pray, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks the [terms] for peace.

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before [us];

peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are close by; and the Lord has said, I will heal them.

And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

And I will settle them round about My mountain; and I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing.

And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause you to dwell safely.

and I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness: and you shall know the Lord.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For scarcely on behalf of a righteous [man] will anyone die; yet on behalf of the good, perhaps someone might even dare to die.

Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning their transgressions to them, and committing to us the word of this reconciliation.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, putting to death the enmity in Himself.

And having come, He preached peace to you who were far away and to those near.

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled