Bible Study

Proverbs 8:22-36

    [22] “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work,

        the first of his acts of old. 

    [23] Ages ago I was set up,

        at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 

    [24] When there were no depths I was brought forth,

        when there were no springs abounding with water. 

    [25] Before the mountains had been shaped,

        before the hills, I was brought forth, 

    [26] before he had made the earth with its fields,

        or the first of the dust of the world. 

    [27] When he established the heavens, I was there;

        when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 

    [28] when he made firm the skies above,

        when he established the fountains of the deep, 

    [29] when he assigned to the sea its limit,

        so that the waters might not transgress his command,

    when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 

    [30]     then I was beside him, like a master workman,

    and I was daily his delight,

        rejoicing before him always, 

    [31] rejoicing in his inhabited world

        and delighting in the children of man.

    [32] “And now, O sons, listen to me:

        blessed are those who keep my ways. 

    [33] Hear instruction and be wise,

        and do not neglect it. 

    [34] Blessed is the one who listens to me,

        watching daily at my gates,

        waiting beside my doors. 

    [35] For whoever finds me finds life

        and obtains favor from the LORD, 

    [36] but he who fails to find me injures himself;

        all who hate me love death.”

Psalm 3:4

    [4] I cried aloud to the LORD,

        and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah

Psalm 99:9

    [9] Exalt the LORD our God,

        and worship at his holy mountain;

        for the LORD our God is holy!

Psalm 2:1-6

    [1] Why do the nations rage

        and the peoples plot in vain? 

    [2] The kings of the earth set themselves,

        and the rulers take counsel together,

        against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, 

    [3] “Let us burst their bonds apart

        and cast away their cords from us.”

    [4] He who sits in the heavens laughs;

        the Lord holds them in derision. 

    [5] Then he will speak to them in his wrath,

        and terrify them in his fury, saying, 

    [6] “As for me, I have set my King

        on Zion, my holy hill.”