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Lk 16

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He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
2 Kings 2:23-24

"Small boys" is a euphemism for young men of low character or status. Elsewhere, the same term is used for young noblemen who haven't yet left their fathers' houses to start their own. Elisha didn't send bears to maul little children, but a mob of threatening young men.

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But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
Joshua 10:27

Joshua respected the image of God in his defeated enemies. Although he treated them spitefully, he treated God's image in their corpses with respect when he took them down from the trees on which they had been hung and buried them as God commanded in Deuteronomy 21:22-23.

PRAYERS QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS – PART 6

Almighty and everlasting YHVH, the comfort of the sad, the strength of sufferers, let the prayers of those that cry out of any tribulation come to You, that all may rejoice to find that Your mercy is present with them in their afflictions. Through Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Jeremiah 31).

Show me, O Adonai, Your mercy, and delight my heart with it. Let me find You, whom I so longingly seek. See, here is the man whom the robbers seized, mishandled, and left half dead on the road to Jericho. O kind-hearted Samaritan, come to my aid! I am the sheep who wandered into the wilderness; seek after me, and bring me home again to Your fold. Do with me what You will, that I may stay with You all the days of my life and praise You with all those who are with You in heaven for all eternity. (Jeremiah 50)

In the hour of my distress, when temptations I oppress, and when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, and with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, and the comforters are few, and that number more than true, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the Judgment is revealed and that opened which was sealed when to thee I have appealed Sweet Spirit, comfort me! (Lamentations 3).

O Adonai Eloheinu Almighty, redeem my soul from its bondage, that I may be free to live henceforth, not for myself, but for You. Help me to put away self, and to remember that this life is not given for my ease, my enjoyment. It is a schooling time for the eternal home You have prepared for those who love You. Keep my eye steadily fixed on that haven of rest and peace, that I may not be faint nor be weary from the length of the way, but may strive to walk worthy of my high calling in all meekness and lowliness of heart. (Ezekiel 11).

You are wisdom, uncreated and eternal, the supreme first cause, above all being, sovereign Godhead, sovereign goodness, watching unseen the YHVH-inspired wisdom of Messianic/Christian people. Raise us, we pray, that we may totally respond to the supreme, unknown, ultimate, and splendid height of Your words, mysterious and inspired. There all YHVH’s secret matters lie covered and hidden under darkness profound and brilliant, silent and wise. You make what is ultimate and beyond brightness secretly to shine in all that is most dark. (Ezekiel 43).

O Adonai, great is the glory you have received from those whom you in your mercy have called. Adonai, protect all of Your servants. Stay with them to the end, for they will then glorify Your Name for all eternity. (Daniel 3).

Almighty and Everlasting YHVH, prepare us by all the events of life for our great and final change, for we know not how soon it may come upon us. May every opportunity of Holy meditation, and of public, social, and secret prayer, call our mind from this earthly scene, that we may be fitted for that everlasting state. When the shadows of evening shall come upon us, when age and sickness arrive, when human help shall fail us, be, O Adonai, the strength of our heart and our portion forever more. (Daniel 12).

Almighty and most merciful Father, whose mercy has kept me from the grave, grant that I may reflect on my past life and repent of the days and years in which I ignored Your grace and neglected my salvation. Help me to use the time You have given me, so that I may become more diligent in the studies You have given me. When at last I shall be called in judgment, may I be received as a good and faithful servant into everlasting happiness. For the sake of Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Hosea 6).

O Adonai my Saviour and my Master, I, Your undeserving servant, with fear and trembling give thanks to Your loving goodness for all benefits which You have poured so abundantly upon me, Your servant. I fall down in adoration before You and offer You, O YHVH, my praises. With fervour I cry to You, O YHVH: Deliver me from all adversities, and mercifully fulfil in me those desires that may be pleasing to You. Hear me, O Adonai and have mercy, for You are the hope of all the earth. To You, with the Father and Ruach HaKodesh, be ascribed glory, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. (Joel 2).

O Adonai, look in pity on us poor pilgrims in the narrow way. Let us not go astray but reach at last our true home where our Father dwells. Guide and govern us from day to day, and bestow on us food and strength for body and soul that we may journey on in peace. Forgive us for having so often wavered or looked back, and let us march straight on in the way of your laws. May our last step be a safe and peaceful passage to the arms of Your love, and the blessed fellowship of the saints in light. Hear us, O Adonai and glorify Your Name in us that we may glorify you forever and ever. (Amos 5)

Blessed Adonai, who was tempted in all things like we are, has mercy on our frailty. Out of weakness give us strength. Grant to us your fear so that we may fear You only. Support us in time of temptation. Embolden us in time of danger. Help us to do Your work with good courage and to continue as Your faithful soldiers and servants to the end of our life; through Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Jonah 2).

O Adonai, greatest and most true light, from which the light of the day and of the sun springs! O Light, which lightens every human who comes into the world! O Light, which knows no night or evening but is always at midday most clear and fair! Without You all is utter dark- ness; by You everything is resplendent. O Wisdom, Father of mercies, enlighten my mind, so that I may see only those things that please You and be blind to everything else. (Micah 7).

Grant, Almighty YHVH, that we may learn to rely on You and so trust Your blessing that we would avoid stealing and plunder and all other evil deeds. Keep us from all unlawful coveting. Help us to fear You and so learn to bear our poverty on earth by being content with the spiritual riches You offer us in Your gospel. As partakers in that Good News, may we cheerfully aspire to that fullness of all blessings, which we shall enjoy when we are perfectly united to You through Moshiach our Saviour. (Habakkuk 2).

O Adonai, help us to turn and seek You; for You have not forsaken Your creatures as we have forsaken You, our Elohim. Let us turn and seek You, for we know You are here in our heart when we confess to You, when we cast ourselves upon You and weep in Your bosom after all our rugged ways; and You gently wipe away our tears, and we weep more for joy; for You, Adonai, who made us, do remake and comfort us. (Zephaniah 2).

O YHVH, before whose face the generations rise and pass away: Age after age the living seeks You and finds that there is no end to Your faithfulness. Our forbears in their pilgrimages walked by your guidance and rested on your compassion. To their children You were the cloud by day and the pillar by night. Where but in You have we shelter from the storm and shadow, from the heat of life? Take now the veil from every heart, and join us in one communion with Your prophets and saints who have trusted in You and were not ashamed. Not because we merit it, but because of Your mercy, hear our prayer. (Zechariah 10).

Help me Adonai, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church or closet nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in Your presence. So may my every word and action have a moral content. (Malachi 2)

PRAYERS QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS – PART 5

O Adonai, who is the giver of all good things, fill our hearts with gratitude for the food and drink laid before us. And as we fill our bellies, may we be sober and frugal in our eating, taking only that which is necessary to refresh ourselves for Your service. Let the pleasure we take in the bread that nourishes our earthly bodies be as nothing to the joy we take in the spiritual bread of Your truth, which nourishes the soul. (Proverbs 13).

O Adonai, who has so loved my soul, make me a lover of souls. Fill me with an unwearied, unconditional love, one that perceives keenly and endures strongly. Let such love enable others to do and be their best. Help me to be an advocate for the powerless and invisible. Take from me the spirit of nervousness and self-absorption. Being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, may I am fit to love, steady to persevere. Let no sickness or accident, no task or weariness, make me ungracious to those about me, but in all things make me like Your Holy Son, Yeshua. (Proverbs 16).

YHVH of Truth, protector of Your people, come to the aid of all who are poor and oppressed. By the power of Your life-giving Word, lead us in the ways of peace and integrity, and give us the help we long for in Yeshua Moshiach our Saviour. (Proverbs 29).

The breath of life, O Adonai, seems spent. My body is tense, my mind filled with anxiety, yet I have no zest, no energy. I am helpless to allay my fears; I am incapable of relaxing my limbs. Dark thoughts constantly invade my head, and I have no power to resist them. . .. Friends no longer want to visit me. You have driven away my spiritual brethren. I am now an outcast from Your church. No longer have the flowers wanted to bloom for me. No longer have the trees come into leaf for me. No longer have the birds sung at my window. My fellow Christians condemn me as an idle sinner. Adonai, raise up my soul, revives my body. (Ecclesiastes 2).

Teach us, O Adonai and enable us to live the life of saints and angels. Take us out of the apathy, the irritability, the sensitiveness, the anarchy in which our souls lie, and fill them with Your fullness. Breathe on us with Your breath, which infuses energy and kindles fervour. In asking for fervour, we ask for all that we may need and all that You can give. In asking for fervour, we are asking for faith, hope, and charity; we are asking for that loyal perception of duty, which follows on yearning affection; we are asking for sanctity, peace, and joy, all at once. Nothing would be a trouble to us, nothing a difficulty, had we but fervour of soul. Adonai, in asking for fervour we are asking for You, for nothing short of You, O YHVH. Enter our hearts, and fill them with fervour by filling them with You. (Ecclesiastes 12).

Majestic Sovereign, Timeless Wisdom, Your kindness melts my hard, cold soul. Handsome Lover, Selfless Giver, Your beauty fills my dull, sad eyes. I am Yours, You made me. I am Yours, You called me. I am Yours, You saved me. I am Yours, You loved me. I will never leave Your presence. Give me death, give me life. Give me sickness, give me health. Give me honour, give me shame. Give me weakness, give me strength. I will have whatever You give. (Song of Songs 2).

I ask You, Adonai Yeshua, to develop in me, Your lover, an immeasurable urge toward You, an affection that is unbounded, a longing that is unrestrained, a fervour that throws discretion to the winds! The more worthwhile our love for You, all the more pressing does it become. Reason cannot hold it in check, fear does not make it tremble, and wise judgment does not temper it. (Song of Songs 8).

Merciful Father, we come to You confessing the sins of our civilization, in which we have all shared. We have been so bent upon our selfish ends that we would not stop to have mercy. When we have seen those whom the injustices of the world have bruised and beaten, we have passed by on the other side. We have built around ourselves the walls of privilege, within which we might not hear the passion of exploited men, the weeping of women, and the bitter cry of children robbed of happy youth. O YHVH of judgment, make us fit to ask for Your forgiveness before it is too late. (Isaiah 1).

Almighty YHVH and Father of light, a child is born for us and a son is given to us. Your eternal Word leaped down from heaven in the silent watches of the night, and now Your Church is filled with wonder at the nearness of her YHVH. Open our heart to receive his life and increase our vision with the rising of dawn, that our life may be filled with His glory and His peace, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. (Isaiah 9).

Adonai, we beseech You to help and defend us. Deliver the oppressed, pity the poor, uplift those who have fallen, be the portion of those in need, return to Your care those who have feed the hungry, strengthen the weak, and break the chains of the prisoners. May all people come to know that You only are YHVH, that Yeshua Moshiach is Your Son, and that we are Your people and the sheep of Your pasture.
(Isaiah 25).

O eternal and most glorious YHVH, You who assure us that precious in Your sight is the death of Your saints, enable us in life and death, seriously to consider the value, the price of a soul. It is precious, O Adonai, because Your image is stamped and imprinted upon it; precious, because the blood of Your Son was paid for it; precious, because Your blessed Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, works upon it and tests it by His various fires; and precious, because it is entered into Your revenue and made part of Your treasure. (Isaiah 43)

I asked for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of YHVH. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I had asked for but everything that I had hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered; I am, among all men, most richly blessed. (Isaiah 55).

Behold Adonai, an empty vessel that needs to be filled. My Adonai, fill it. My faith is weak; strengthen me. I am cold in love; warm me and make me fervent that my love may go out to my neighbour. I do not have a strong and firm faith; at times I doubt and am unable to trust You altogether. O Adonai, help me. Strengthen my faith and trust in You. In You I have sealed the treasures of all I have. I am poor; You are rich and did come to be merciful to the poor. I am a sinner; You are upright. With me there is an abundance of sin; in You is the fullness of righteousness. Therefore, I will remain with You of whom I can receive but to whom I may not give. (Isaiah 65).

Grant to me, O Adonai, to know what I ought to know, to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights You most, to value what is precious in Your sight, to hate what is offensive to You. Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern with true judgment between things visible and spiritual, and above all things to enquire what the good pleasure of Your will is. (Jeremiah 8).

O Adonai Almighty, Father un-begotten, upon us miserable sinners have mercy. O Adonai, who has redeemed the work of Your hands by Your only Son, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, blot out our offences, and upon Your people have mercy. O Moshiach, Brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of His person, have mercy upon us. O Moshiach, who saved the world at the command of the Father, have mercy upon us. O Moshiach, Saviour of men, eternal life of angels, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, Spirit, the Comforter, Dispenser of pardon, have mercy upon us. O Adonai, Fountain of mercy and of sevenfold grace, have mercy upon us. O most bountiful Giver of gifts, Rabbeinu, Source of life, of Your goodness have mercy upon us. (Jeremiah 15).

Come forth from Your royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth. Put on the visible robes of Your imperial majesty. Take up that limitless sceptre that Your Almighty Father has bequeathed you. For now the voice of Your bride, the church, calls You, and all creatures sigh to be renewed. (Jeremiah 23).

PRAYERS QUOTING OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS – PART 4

Let us give thanks to Moshiach and offer Him continual praise, for He sanctifies us and calls us His brothers and sisters. Adonai, help us to grow in holiness. With single-minded devotion we dedicate this day to the honour of Your resurrection; may we make the whole of this day pleasing to You by our works of Holiness. As a sign of Your love, You renew each day for the sake of our well-being and happiness; renew us daily for the sake of Your glory. Teach us today to recognize Your presence in all men, especially in the poor and in those who mourn. Grant that we may live today in peace with all men, never rendering evil for evil. (Ezra 1).

Grant us grace to come near You with faith unshaken and full of hope to confess our trespasses and despise them. Let Your Spirit reprove us for our sins. Enlighten our hearts that we may see how greatly did we err, misbehave, and forsake the way. Grant us determination to forsake evil that we may be established in Your commandments and live to glorify Your holy Name. (Ezra 10)

Our weakness Adonai, gives You continual opportunity for displaying Your strength. And opposition to Your church gives You continual opportunity for displaying your power. Thus, at times of persecution, when we feel weak in the face of our enemies, sustain our heart with your strength, and defeat Your enemies by Your mighty power. And may the blood that Your faithful people shed today become the soil in which Your church grows and flourishes in the future. (Nehemiah 4).

Almighty YHVH, Father of our Maran Rabbeinu Yeshua Moshiach grant we pray, that we might be grounded and settled in Your truth by the coming of Your Ruach Kodesh in our hearts. What we do not know, reveal to us; What is lacking within us, make complete; That which we do not know, confirm in us; And keep us blameless in Your service, Through Yeshua Moshiach our Adonai. (Nehemiah 13).

Almighty YHVH, King of kings, who has called us into a Kingdom not of this world: Send forth Your Spirit, we pray, into the dark dwelling places of guilt and woe. Reach the heart of every oppression, and make arrogance silent before Your presence. Still the noise of our strife. Put to shame the false idols of every heart. Bring faith to the doubting, hope to those who fear, strength to the powerless, and comfort to all who mourn. O Adonai, bestow Your Word on faithful witnesses, so that Your Kingdom may come quickly. May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven; through Moshiach our Adonai. (Esther 4).

Abba, I abandon myself to You. Do with me as You will. Whatever You may do with me, I thank You. I am prepared for anything; I accept everything. Provided Your will is fulfilled in me and in all creatures, I ask for nothing more, my YHVH. I place my soul in Your hands. I give it to You, my Elohim, with all the love of my heart because I love You. And for me it is a necessity of love, this gift of myself, this placing of myself in Your hands without reserve in boundless confidence, because You are Abba. (Job 1)

O Almighty YHVH, when our vision fails and our understanding is darkened, when the ways of life seem hard and brightness of life is gone, grant to us the wisdom that deepens faith and enlarges trust. And whenever the ways in nature or in the soul are hard to understand, then may our quiet confidence, our patient trust, our living faith in You be great. . . . May we with a quiet mind at all times put our trust in You. (Job 12).

O YHVH, our great Companion, You are the light of minds that know You, the life of souls that love You and the strength of wills that serve You: Help us so to know You that we may truly love You, so to love You that we may fully serve You, who to serve is perfect freedom; through Yeshua Moshiach. (Job 28).

Hear us, O YHVH, the Father of our Adonai Yeshua Moshiach. Through Your Name the sea is calmed, the fire is quenched, and the grave and death are brought to nothing. You comfort those who are oppressed; You heal those who are suffering; those who are lost in the sea, You come to their aid. In like manner my Adonai, also come to help and deliver us from this time. For You are the true YHVH, the Help of those who are oppressed and in tribulation; and Yours is the power and the glory forever. (Job 37).

O YHVH, the King eternal, who divides the day from the darkness and turns the shadow of death into morning, drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our heart to keep Your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done Your will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when night comes, rejoice and give You thanks. (Psalms 5).

I thank You, my Elohim and King Most High, that You have given me these joys in Your creation, this ecstasy over the works of Your hands. I have made known the glory of Your works to men as far as my finite spirit was able to comprehend Your infinity. If I have said anything wholly unworthy of You or have aspired after my own glory, graciously forgive me. (Psalms 8).

O Most High, Almighty, and wonderful YHVH, to You belongs praise, glory, honour, and all blessing! Praised be my Adonai Eloheinu and His creatures and especially for the sun, who brings us the day and who brings us the light; fair is he and shines with very great splendour; O Adonai, he points us to You! (Psalms 19)

Grant us, we pray, the lost who hunger and thirst after righteousness; the longing for YHVH. Grant to us that drawing power by which everything in us shall call for You. Become necessary to us. With the morning and evening light, at noon and at midnight, may we feel the need of Your companionship. . . . Though You do not speak as man speaks, yet You can call out to us; and the soul shall know Your presence and shall understand by its own self what You mean. Grant to us this witness of the Spirit, this communion of the soul with You; and not only once or twice: May we abide in the light. (Psalms 27).

I confess Adonai, with thanksgiving that You have made me in Your image so that I can remember You, think of You, and love You. But that image is so worn and blotted out by faults, and darkened by the smoke of sin that it cannot do that for which it was made unless You renew and refashion it. Adonai, I am not trying to make my way to Your height, for my understanding is in no way equal to that, but I do desire to understand a little of Your truth, which my heart already believes and loves. (Psalms 51).

As the hand is made for holding and the eye for seeing, You have fashioned me for joy. Share with me the vision that shall find it everywhere: in the wild violet’s beauty; in the lark’s melody; in the face of a steadfast man; in a child’s smile; in a mother’s love; in the purity of Yeshua. (Psalms 65).

O Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, very bright Sun of the world, ever rising, never going down: We ask You to shine upon our spirit. You have driven away the night of sin and error by your inward light; let us now walk in the light of this day without stumbling. Hear our prayer, Adonai, who lives and reigns with the Father and Ruach HaKodesh now and forever. (Psalms 92).

O my Elohim, let me walk in the way of love, which knows not how to see self in anything whatsoever. But what love must it be? It must be an ardent love, a pure love, a courageous love, a love of charity, a humble love, and a constant love. O Adonai, give this love into my soul, that I may never more live nor breathe but out of a more pure love of Thee, my all and only YHVH. (Psalms 116).

Adonai, help us to love You; teach us to serve You. Give us Your strength that we may overcome our corrupt nature. Grant this day that we may have power from on high to resist every temptation; to confess Moshiach before men and women; to labour steadfastly with a single eye to Your glory; to live in the spirit of prayer, in faith, humility, self-denial, and love; and to walk before You in that narrow way that leads to eternal life. Fill us with love for others. Teach us to do good to all people, to visit and relieve the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. Adonai, for Your Name’s sake, hear us. (Psalms 138).

O sweet and loving YHVH, when I stay asleep too long, oblivious to all Your many blessings, then, please, wake me up and sing to me Your joyful song. It is a song without noise or notes; it is a song of love beyond words, of faith beyond the power of human telling. I can hear it in my soul when you awaken me to Your presence. (Psalms 147).

Keep me, O Adonai, while I remain on this earth, in a daily practice of serious seeking after You. Grant me an affectionate, believing walk with You, so that when You return, I will not be found hiding my talent or serving my flesh or asleep with my lamp unfilled, but waiting and longing for my Adonai, my glorious YHVH, for ever and ever. (Proverbs 3).