Psalm 68

³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

¹⁰Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

¹³The Lord goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

¹⁴“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

²⁶Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

⁸Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

⁹May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

³Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

²⁰But the wicked and enemies of the Lord will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

¹⁶And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

¹⁷For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

¹⁸For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

⁵The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

¹⁰Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.

¹⁶Rejoice at all times.

¹A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

²Serve the Lord with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.

²⁰Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.

¹Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!

²Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.

⁸Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

⁴and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.

⁵Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known in all the earth.

⁴All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah

³laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

³³to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.

²Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.

¹⁴But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

¹¹Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

³Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

⁴Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

⁹The Lord protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

²“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

³And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

⁹He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

³³For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

⁷He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,

²¹And the Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

⁴O Lord, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

¹⁴Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the Lord gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

¹²You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

¹³You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

¹³One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord as their leader.

¹When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

²Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel His dominion.

¹⁸Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the Lord had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

¹⁶On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

⁴O Lord, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.

⁵The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

²³And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

²⁴and you said, “Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

²⁶At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”

¹³Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

¹⁴then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

²⁶I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

⁹You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

¹⁰You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

²⁴He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

¹⁰For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

¹¹But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

¹⁶The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

¹⁷The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

⁹And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O Lord, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before Him.

¹⁹Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

⁵The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

⁸He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.

⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

⁹But the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

²⁵The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

⁹So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

¹⁰Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

⁶She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the Lord, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.

¹⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.

¹⁶Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

¹⁹Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

¹⁷Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

¹⁸so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

⁷And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

⁸the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

²⁴Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”

⁵⁴And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.

¹⁴Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

³⁷He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.

¹⁶Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

³For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

⁶who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

⁹Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

¹⁰nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁸“Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

¹⁴The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.

¹⁵And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

⁷And the people served the Lord throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the Lord had done for Israel.

⁴⁸he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

¹⁰And the Lord threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

¹¹As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the Lord cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

¹A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

²The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

⁶“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

⁶⁸But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

¹⁴Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

²In the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

³And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁵Instead, you must seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

¹³For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

¹⁴“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

²I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

²²Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

²³in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

³And the Lord said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

¹¹then the Lord your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

²He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

¹⁰A river of fire was flowing, coming out from His presence. Thousands upon thousands attended Him, and myriads upon myriads stood before Him. The court was convened, and the books were opened.

¹¹Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.

¹⁶And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.

⁸Were You angry at the rivers, O Lord? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

⁵³Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

⁸This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

⁹What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?

³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

¹⁶What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

³For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

⁴But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

²²Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

¹Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

³⁹See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

¹⁸the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

²¹For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

⁶The Lord brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

¹⁷I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the Lord has done.

¹⁸The Lord disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

¹³You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah

¹²If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

⁵No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

⁶He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

¹⁴But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

¹⁵In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁷But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

²⁸Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

³³Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

²⁴For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

²²and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

¹⁰Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

¹¹So the redeemed of the Lord will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

²Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

³Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

²⁹But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

¹⁹Tell him that this is what the Lord says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the Lord says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”

¹⁰The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

³⁸And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the Lord had spoken.

¹⁷Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

¹⁸so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

³³“Throw her down!” yelled Jehu. So they threw her down, and her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

³⁴Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”

¹Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

²Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

⁵God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord with the sound of the horn.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!

¹⁶David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

¹⁷So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;

¹²Now it was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

¹³When those carrying the ark of the Lord had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

⁸David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

⁷Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

⁸Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

²So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

⁸David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

³⁴And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

²And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.

³And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

²And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

⁶As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

¹“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

²⁸So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

¹⁶Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

¹²My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the Lord.

⁷On that day David first committed to Asaph and his associates this song of thanksgiving to the Lord:

⁸“Give thanks to the Lord; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

²¹Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

¹⁶Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

⁷Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

¹³Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

⁶And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

⁷What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the Lord not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

¹²The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

⁸The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. O Lord, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

³Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

⁶being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

³¹But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

⁹But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

¹⁰That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

¹⁰Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

¹¹Make and fulfill your vows to the Lord your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.

³Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:

⁶Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the Lord.

⁷All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

⁷At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord of Hosts.

¹²The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.

¹²Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

¹³They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

⁴⁴When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

¹On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.

²And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

¹Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.

²David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

¹⁴This is what the Lord says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”

¹⁰From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.

²⁷So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

²⁸and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.

¹⁸In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

¹⁹In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

⁶I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

⁴³Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

¹⁰Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

¹¹And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

²that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

³Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise You.

¹Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!

²For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Hallelujah!

⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

¹A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

¹⁰He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

³laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

⁴Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds—His name is the Lord—and rejoice before Him.

²⁷But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

¹⁹Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

⁶And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

²⁸Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

²⁹Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness;

¹⁷For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

¹Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

¹¹The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.

¹¹being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

²⁹He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

⁵With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

¹²I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.