For My counsels are not as your counsels, nor are My ways as your ways, says the Lord.

And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

Therefore, behold, I [will] cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very thing I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in My city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

On account of sin for a little while I grieved him and struck him, and turned away My face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;

I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

After two days He will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before Him, and shall know [Him.]

How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? [How] shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

I will not act according to the fury of My wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in your midst; and I will not enter into the city.

And Jonah began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he preached, and said, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his robe, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloth, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned everyone from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God relented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did it not.

And behold, a Canaanite woman coming forth from that region cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed."

But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw [it] to the little dogs."

Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

And he arose and went to his father. But when he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

The Lord does not delay concerning His promise, as some reckon slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

Now will I arise, says the Lord, now will I be glorified; now will I be exalted.

And the nations shall be burned up, as a thorn in the field is cast out and burned up.

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

[For] You are to be feared; and who shall withstand You, because of Your anger?

when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause.

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

"Therefore having being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

Till I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet."

Now having heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

"For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

which He worked in Christ, having raised Him from the dead, and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,

And He subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

The God who dwells on high is holy; Zion is filled with judgment and righteousness.

Jacob is My servant, I will help him; Israel is My elect, My soul has accepted him; I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

A bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

[As for God], His works [are] true, and all His ways [are] judgment: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in Him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.

Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares His own designs.

He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and He will save me: and do you plead before Him, if you can praise Him, as it is [possible] even now?

And the king's honor loves judgment; You have prepared equity, You have established judgment and justice in Jacob.

Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest You make us few [in number].

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that have not known You, and upon the families that have not called upon Your name; for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers, according to the former days.

you that have provoked God with your words. But you said, In what way have we provoked Him? In that you say, Everyone that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and He takes pleasure in such; and where is the God of justice?

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those practicing such things.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

who will recompense to each one according to his works:

But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

but glory, honor, and peace to everyone that works good, both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,

And [one] shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away His face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in Him.

And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and He shall save us; this [is] the Lord; we have waited for Him, and we have exalted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

The way of the godly is made straight; the way of the godly is also prepared.

For the way of the Lord is judgment; we have hoped in Your name, and on the remembrance [of You],

but they that wait on God shall renew [their] strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you should perish from the righteous way. Whenever His wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in Him.

Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened; yea, wait on the Lord!

Blessed be the Lord, for He has hearkened to the voice of my petition.

The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in Him, and I am helped; my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to Him.

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who hopes in Him.

For the end, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

And He put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God; many shall see [it] and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

For the end, A Psalm of David to Jeduthun. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? For from Him is my salvation.

For He is my God, and my savior; my helper, I shall not be greatly moved.

Nevertheless, my soul is subjected to God; for of Him [is] my patient hope.

In God [is] my salvation and my glory; [He is] the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in You!

[He who is] skillful in business finds good, but he that trusts in God is most blessed.

But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.

TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for Him; the soul which shall seek Him

is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation from the Lord.

But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Savior: my God will hearken to me.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause: He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.

But He that searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will] [of] God.

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.