#holy people

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

New Jerusalem

1 For Zion I shall not be still, and for Jerusalem I shall not rest, till the just man thereof go out as shining, and the saviour thereof be tended as a lamp. (For the sake of Zion I shall not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I shall not rest, until its justice goeth out like the shining sun, and its deliverance, or its salvation, be tended like a lamp.)

2 And heathen men shall see thy just man, and all kings shall see thy noble man; and a new name, which the mouth of the Lord named, shall be called to thee. (And the heathen shall see thy justice, and all the kings shall see thy nobility; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall proclaim.)

3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a diadem of the realm in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be called forsaken, and thy land shall no more be called desolate; but thou shalt be called My will in that, and thy land (That that) shall be inhabited; for it pleased the Lord in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited. (Thou shalt no more be called Deserted, and thy land shall no more be called Desolate, but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, or I am pleased, or delighted, with her, and thy land shall be called Beulah, or Married; for the Lord is pleased with thee, and thy land is wedded to him.)

5 For a young man shall dwell with a virgin, and thy sons shall dwell in thee; and the spouse shall have joy on the spouses, and thy God shall have joy on thee. (For like a young man shall live with a virgin, so thou, his sons and daughters, shall live with him; and like the spouse shall have joy in the spouses, so thy God shall have joy in thee.)

6 Jerusalem, I have ordained keepers on thy walls, all day and all night without end they shall not be still. Ye that think on the Lord, be not still, (Jerusalem, I have ordained guards upon thy walls, and they shall not keep silent day or night, but shall always be ready to sound the alarm. Ye who think upon the Lord, be not silent,)

7 and give ye not silence to him, till he stablish, and till he set Jerusalem (a) praising in (all) [the] earth.

8 The Lord swore in his right hand, and in the arm of his strength, I shall no more give thy wheat (to be) meat to thine enemies, and alien sons shall not drink thy wine, in which thou hast travailed. (The Lord swore by his right hand, and by the strength of his arm, saying, I shall no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies, and foreigners, or strangers, shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured so.)

9 For they that shall gather it together, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord; and they that bear it together, shall drink (it) in mine holy foreyards. (For they who shall gather it together, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord; and they who shall bring it in, shall drink it in my holy courtyards.)

10 Pass ye, pass ye by the gates; make ye ready (a) way to the people, make ye a plain path; and choose ye [the] stones, and raise ye [up] a sign to peoples. (Go ye out, go ye out by the gates; make ye ready a way for my people, make ye a plain path; yea, clear ye away the stones, and raise ye up a sign for the nations.)

11 Lo! the Lord made heard in the last parts of the earth. Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Lo! thy saviour cometh; lo! his meed is with him, and his work is before him. (Lo! the Lord made it heard unto the ends of the earth: Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Lo! thy Saviour cometh; lo! his reward is with him, and his work is before him.)

12 And they shall call them the holy people, again-bought of the Lord. Forsooth thou shalt be called a city sought, and not forsaken. (And they shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. And thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not abandoned.) — Isaiah 62 | Wycliffe's Bible (WYC) The Wycliffe Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Exodus 19:6; Leviticus 26:16; Deuteronomy 28:31; Psalm 68:4; Psalm 74:2; Song of Solomon 3:11; Song of Solomon 4:8; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 26:2; Isaiah 28:5; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 54:6-7; Isaiah 55:2; Isaiah 65:13; Matthew 21:5; Luke 18:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 3:12; Revelation 22:12

[inbetweening]

Painting a local spirit

[leon-production]

Meeting with Michelangelo, the pope told him: "Do not finish the chapel with paint and gold richer, because it is a little poor". To which Michelangelo simply replied: "Father, in those days, people did not wear gold on themselves, and those who are depicted there, too rich were not, but were holy people, because they despised wealth.👑

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Storm rolls in over the Grand Canyon :: Eloquent Images by Gary Hart

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She’d spent too many nights talking to cops, she decided. She knew that words had consequences; that was why the Holy People had taught the Navajo to use them wisely and with restraint. Talking about the negative, as she had done, brought it into the forefront, like inviting evil into the hogan, into your living room. She was only talking, not thinking. Talking too much, a little too proud, a little too full of herself. All behaviors the Holy People warned against. Cave of Bones (Leaphorn & Chee #22) by Anne Hillerman

[chanzene]

Why do you start things and don’t finish them?

The answer would confuse any reader. Because a mixture of analysis paralysis and grief would confuse anyones mind. You see in the middle of any storm theres a calm. A calm that only God the creator can understand. A peace so filling no confusion can enter just joy flows.

I think that is the why. I am searching for peace in the middle of my storm. Everything I seem to pick up does gives me “earthly” peace and more confusion. More expectations from others. As well as bondage from the deadlines and titles. But to the observer looking in its chaos & its unstable.  

When the storm is doing what is does best destroying everything in its path. Who knows if anything that was there before will be left. The different shifts and turns in life knocks the wind out of your lungs as if you were hit by a speeding car. 

If the only point is to not be perfect and give up everything and follow the Lord? Why must I settle on a project, a deadline, or a title for my name to be written in the book? Just to receive my reward and inheritance for my service to my God?

Nothing feels right. I overthink everything. Nothing stands a chance. I will cancel it out the the next chance I get because I will find a flaw in it. I am running myself wild trying to figure it out. Figure out what you may ask, what to do with my life?

In six months I will be leaving my 20s to journey into the abyss we call the 30s. I don’t know what kind of wilderness awaits me. Each quarter of this year I have been trying to prepare. 

Will I find out in time before Jesus return? No one knows, but I don’t want to be lacking the knowledge or caught slipping. 

The thing to start doing and to never stop is the fact that someone is always watching. So be careful what you decided to do with the time. The days are evil. 

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Deuteronomy 28: Moses Promises Israel Their Obedience To God Will Make Them The Greatest Nation On Earth

1 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 

2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 

10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 

11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 

13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 

14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 

22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 

23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 

24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 

26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 

27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 

28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 

29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 

31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 

32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 

33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 

34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 

35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 

37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 

39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 

40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 

41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 

42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 

44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 

46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 

47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 

48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 

50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 

51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 

52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 

54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 

55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 

56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 

57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 

59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 

60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 

61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 

62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 

63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 

65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 

66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 

67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 

68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

[quail-dove]

ok new winner from r/stupiddovenests

[transformers-earthspark]

IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.

YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.

The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.

Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog]". (This post shows how to do it on browser and on mobile.) You need to do this with every sideblog. (Note: The option in settings might not appear if your app hasn't updated yet. You can still opt out via browser.)

Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.

[mutualcombat]

SPIDERWEAVE GANG RISE UP

[timothy-kang]

Walking With God—Review of Duteronomy 7

Review of Deuteronomy 7 God who brought you out from Egypt and kept the covenant with you will cast out the enemies because you are the holy people who God has chosen. But God will anger them serving other gods. Therefore, the duty you should do is to keep His commandments and then the blessing of God will follow you. Who can resist you if God is on your side?

[jestroer]

Guys, there are. Two shadow people on the new banner

[morganpdf]

Lost my fucking mind at a red light today

turning off reblogs bc im tired of terfs in my notes. anwyays trans people are sooo much cooler and sexier than cis people but especially terfs. bye

[andisupreme]

I moved recently to start a new job and part of my commute now involves one of those high capacity toll booths where a two lane road suddenly flares out into 5-7 lanes of total anarchy with no lines anywhere, and then narrows back down to two lanes again, and we're just supposed to sort ourselves out? Who designed this

anyway I dreamed up this helpful anatomical guide on the drive home

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mountains just beyond Cherokee on Blue Ridge Parkway

[Blue Ridge Parkway Photography.]

* * * * * 1. Before this world existed, the holy people made themselves visible by becoming clouds, sun, moon, trees, bodies of water, thunder rain, snow, and other aspects of this world we live in. That way, they said, we would never be alone. So it is possible to talk to them and pray, no matter where we are and how we feel. Biyázhí daniidlí, we are their little ones. 2. Since the beginning, the people have gone outdoors at dawn to pray, The morning light, adinídíín, represents knowledge and mental awareness. With the dawn come the holy ones who bring blessings and daily gifts, because they are grateful when we remember them. 3. When you were born and took your first breath, different colors and different kinds of wind entered through your fingertips and the whorl on top of your head. Within us, as we breathe, are the light breezes that cool a summer afternoon, within us the tumbling winds that precede rain, within us sheets of hard-thundering rain, within us dust-filled layers of wind that sweep in from the mountains, within us gentle night flutters that lull us to sleep. To see this, blow on your hand now. Each sound we make evokes the power of these winds and we are, at once, gentle and powerful. 4. Think about good things when preparing meals. It is much more than physical nourishment. The way the cook (or cooks) think and feel become a part of the meal. Food that is prepared with careful thought, contentment, and good memories tastes so good and nurtures the mind and spirit, as well as the body. Once my mother chased me out of the kitchen because it is disheartening to think of eating something cooked by an angry person. 5. Be careful not to let your children sit or play on tables or countertops Not only is it bad manners, but they might have to get married far sooner than you would ever want. 6. Don't cut your own hair or anyone else's after dark. There are things that come with the darkness that we have no control over. It's not clear why this rule exists, but so far no one is willing to become the example of what happens to someone who doesn't abide by it. From Sáanii Dahataa The Women Are Singing by Luci Tapahonso, University of Arizona Press.

[fluffyartbl0g]

SUCK IT ZORO AND NAMI BOSS JINBEI FOR THE WIN 👏👏👏

[violent138]

Dick: "Why the hell are you being so nice to Tim all of a sudden?"

Jason: "First it's don't kill him, he's your brother Jay, which bullshit--"

Dick: "Don't fucking deflect--"

Jason: "--then it's don't be nice to him, so what do you want?"

Dick: "I want you to stop trying to recruit teenagers to carry out your version of justice."

Jason: "I'm guessing you're rejecting my offer."

Dick, smiling uncontrollably.

Jason: "What? No, what's so funny?"

Dick: "You know who you sound like, right? Bru--"

*gunshots*