Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.
Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases...
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:
Deuteronomy 28:1-6 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the eart...
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
