Clapping Hands

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! — read the full passage →

Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints. — read the full passage →

Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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!”

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

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

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”