Talking To Yourself

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.”

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! — read the full passage →

Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. — read the full passage →

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

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

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! — read the full passage →

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”