I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
For You are my rock and my fortress.
Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.
I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; iin pain you shall bring forth children.
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;.
5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be w my treasured possession among all peoples, for x all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a y kingdom of priests and z a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
7Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. 8My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so c that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 17 d You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Pay attention to what you hear: a with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.
And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and g number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, h “So shall your offspring be.” 6And i he believed the LORD, and j he counted it to him as righteousness.
For l it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
I feel something nagging at me, boring into me. I can’t go on living like a plant; I need to move, I have to act, start doing something. I feel as though I’ve been dealt a good hand of cards but don’t know whether I’ll be able to play them. And who am I playing with?
And yet I don’t want to fence myself off, I want to give myself over to this communal sense of humanity; I want to be part of it, to experience it. There’s a split between my aloofness, the desire to keep my private life to myself, and the urge to be like everyone else, to belong to the nation, to abide and suffer history together.
I’ve had so many narrow escapes; I feel I lead a charmed life. Which is probably the way most people feel. How else could they be in such high spirits, surrounded by so much death? What’s clear is that every threat to your life boosts your vitality.
Die with memories, not dreams.
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.
He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.