2368 verses about Serving

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

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.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.

Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

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

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Better is he who is little know, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

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

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

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.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

for an unloved woman when she is married; and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.”

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.

So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

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.”

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

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;

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.