Tanakh Quotes

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“It is for my good that I was afflicted, so that I might learn Your statutes. [...] Had Your Torah not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.”
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
“I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
“The Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool. Where is the House that you may build for Me?”
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
“8Let me exult and rejoice in Your faithfulness     when You notice my affliction,     are mindful of my deep distress,     9and do not hand me over to my enemy,     but a-grant me relief.-a 10Have mercy on me, O LORD,     for I am in distress;     my eyes are wasted by vexation,     b-my substance and body too.-b 11My life is spent in sorrow,     my years in groaning;     my strength fails because of my iniquity,     my limbs waste away. 12Because of all my foes I am the particular butt of my neighbors,     a horror to my friends;     those who see me on the street avoid me. 13I am put out of mind like the dead; I am like an object given up for lost. 14I hear the whisperings of many,”
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
― Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
“Why are you distressed, And why is your face fallen? 7cSurely, if you do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin couches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be its master.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“9“I charge you: Be strong and resolute; do not be terrified or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“16Then justice shall abide in the wilderness And righteousness shall dwell on the farm land. 17For the work of righteousness shall be peace, And the effect of righteousness, calm and confidence forever.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“10(Hailg the just man, for he shall fare well; He shall eat the fruit of his works. 11Woe to the wicked man, for he shall fare ill; As his hands have dealt, so shall it be done to him.)”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh
“As he was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!â€� 24He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and mangled forty-two of the children.”
― JPS Tanakh
― JPS Tanakh