1992 verses about Holiness

“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.

My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.

Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

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.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;

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.

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.

One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

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.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

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

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.

(for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):

For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.