For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Jehovah.

And Jehovah passed before him and proclaimed: Jehovah, Jehovah Mighty God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth,

Therefore, behold, I will seduce her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart.

Moreover the Law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

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 purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared in all the earth.

For thus Jehovah said to me, I will take My rest, and I will look on from My dwelling place, like radiant heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; draw me back, and I shall return. For You are Jehovah my God.

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I call to mind and remember him still. Therefore My heart is stirred for him; I will have mercy and compassion upon him, says Jehovah.

I will go and return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

After two days He will restore us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His presence.

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you up, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart churns within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

I will not execute My burning anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am the Mighty God, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst. And I will not enter into the city with terror.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

And the word reached even to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. And let them call mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God was moved to pity with regard to the evil that He had spoken to do to them, and He did not do it.

And behold, a woman of Canaan came from those borders and cried out to Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously 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 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 came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is longsuffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,

Now I will arise, says Jehovah; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up Myself.

And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.

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

Jehovah of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

The stouthearted were plundered; they have become drowsy and fallen asleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

You, Yourself, are to be feared; and who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

when God arose to justice, to deliver all the lowly of the earth. Selah

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer 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 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.

until I make Your enemies Your footstool.

Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

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

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

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

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

Jehovah is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.

A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth justice unto truth.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a Mighty God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

Talk no more so very proudly; let no arrogance come out of your mouth, for Jehovah is the Mighty God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.

Although you say you do not see Him, yet the case is before Him, and you must wait for Him.

The King's strength also loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

O Jehovah, correct me, but with justice; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling place desolate.

Who is a Mighty God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His possession? His anger does not remain strong forever, for He delights in mercy.

You will give faithfulness to Jacob, goodness to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what way have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

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

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

who will render to each one according to his works:

but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; anger and wrath,

but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will watch for Him.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Jehovah; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

The way of the just is equity; O Upright One, You weigh the path of the just.

Yea, in the way of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for You; for the desire of our soul is Your name and the remembrance of You.

but those who wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

Wait upon Jehovah; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, upon Jehovah!

Blessed is Jehovah, because He has heard the voice of my supplications.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

O taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par I waited patiently for Jehovah, and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

And He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in Jehovah.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Only before God is my soul silent; from Him comes my salvation.

He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my stronghold; I shall not be greatly moved.

My soul, be still only before God; for my expectation is from Him.

In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength; my refuge is in God.

O Jehovah of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!

He who handles a matter wisely shall find good, and whoever trusts in Jehovah, happy is he.

Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his refuge.

Jehovah is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

It is good that one should hope for the salvation of Jehovah, even in silence.

But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

I will bear the indignation of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall see 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 wait for it with perseverance.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Job and seen the outcome brought about by the Lord; that the Lord is very kind and merciful.