Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.
It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.
When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “What is this that has come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”
He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;
Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.