1734 verses about Life

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

You will prolong the king’s life; his years shall be for generations.

So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

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 redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.