1194 verses about Encouragement

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”

Sing to Yahweh, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!

It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.