Do not let stress or anger get the best of you

Songs 37 :8 Refrain from anger and abandon rage, do not become infuriated to do any harm, Pro 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up displeasure. Pro 19:11 A man’s discretion makes him patient, And his adorning is to pass over a transgression. Songs 55:17 Evening and morning and midday I speak and I murmur and He heeds my voice. when your felling an overwealming stress or anger build from life trouble. songs 42:7-8 Deep towards the depth is One calling to the sound of Your channels; all of Your breaking waves and Your rolling waves have crossed over me, Daily Yâ-hwéh commissions His kindness and nightly His song is with me, a prayer for the Power of my life; I find if things become overwealming putting on some Yahweh praise and singing along from the depth deep in the heart really brings a calm over me.

Scripture to help

Psa 69:1 Save me, O Elohim! For waters have come up to my neck.

Psa 69:2 I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me.

Psa 69:3 I am worn out from my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes grow dim As I wait for my Elohim.

Psa 69:4 Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, My lying enemies; What I did not steal, I restored.

Psa 69:5 O Elohim, You Yourself know my foolishness; And my guilt has not been hidden from You.

Psa 69:6 Let not those who wait for You, O Master יהוה of hosts, Be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You Be humbled because of me, O Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.

Psa 69:7 Because I have borne reproach for Your sake; Shame has covered my face.

Psa 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, And a foreigner to my mother’s children;

Psa 69:9 Because ardour for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Psa 69:10 And I wept in my being with fasting, And it became my reproach.

Psa 69:11 And when I put on sackcloth, I became a proverb to them.

Psa 69:12 They who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards.

Psa 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O יהוה, At an acceptable time, O Elohim. In the greatness of Your kindness, Answer me in the truth of Your deliverance.

Psa 69:14 Rescue me out of the mire, And let me not sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters.

Psa 69:15 Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Psa 69:16 Answer me, O יהוה, for Your kindness is good. According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.

Psa 69:17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; Answer me speedily.

Psa 69:18 Draw near to my being, redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies. Psa 69:19 You Yourself know my reproach, And my shame and my confusion; My adversaries are all before You.

Psa 69:20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Psa 69:21 And they gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psa 69:22 Let their table before them become a snare, And a trap to those at ease.

Psa 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so as not to see; And make their loins shake continually.

Psa 69:24 Pour out Your wrath upon them, And let Your burning displeasure overtake them.

Psa 69:25 Let their encampments be deserted; Let no one dwell in their tents.

Psa 69:26 For they persecute him whom You have smitten, And talk about the pain of those You have wounded.

Psa 69:27 Add crookedness to their crookedness, And let them not enter into Your righteousness.

Psa 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous.

Psa 69:29 But I am poor and in pain; Let Your deliverance, O Elohim, set me up on high.

Psa 69:30 I praise the Name of Elohim with a song, And I make Him great with thanksgiving.

Psa 69:31 And this pleases יהוה more than an ox, A bull with horns and hooves.

Psa 69:32 The humble shall see, they rejoice, You who seek Elohim, and your hearts live.

Psa 69:33 For יהוה hears the poor, And He shall not despise His captives.

Psa 69:34 Let the heavens and earth praise Him, The seas and all that moves in them.

Psa 69:35 For Elohim shall save Tsiyon And build the cities of Yehuḏah. And they shall dwell there and possess it,

Psa 69:36 And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those who love His Name dwell in it1. Footnote: 1Ps. 5:11, Ps. 119:132, Isa. 56:6.