TSK · Isaiah 30:18

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

Rely on the LORD! Be strong and confident! Rely on the LORD!

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the one who takes shelter in him!

He says,“Stop your striving and recognize that I am God! I will be exalted over the nations! I will be exalted over the earth!”

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me hope.

O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, how blessed are those who trust in you!

The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.

I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.

At that time they will say,“Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the LORD! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”

Yes, as your judgments unfold, O LORD, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow.

“Now I will rise up,” says the LORD.“Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.

The Lord Commissions His Special Servant“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my Spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.

“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,” says the LORD,

I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

Correct us, LORD, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully,‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God.

ט(Tet) The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?

A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out,“Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,