Bible in 90 Days

²² Let their own feasts cause their ruin.
    Let their feasts trap them and pay them back.
²³ Let their eyes be closed so they cannot see.
    Let their backs be forever weak from troubles.
²⁴ Pour your anger out on them.
    Show them how angry you are.
²⁵ May their place be empty.
    Leave no one to live in their tents.
²⁶ They chase after those you have hurt.
    They talk about the pain of those you have wounded.
²⁷ Charge them with crime after crime.
    Do not let them have anything good.
²⁸ Wipe their names from the book of life.
    Do not list them with those who do what is right.

²⁹ I am sad and hurting.
    God, save me and protect me.

³⁰ I will praise God in a song.
    I will honor him by giving thanks.
³¹ That will please the Lord more than offering him cattle.
    It will please him more than the sacrifice of a bull with horns and hooves.
³² People who are not proud will see this and be glad.
    Be encouraged, you who worship God.
³³ The Lord listens to those in need.
    He does not look down on captives.

³⁴ Heaven and earth should praise him.
    The seas and everything in them should also.
³⁵ God will save Jerusalem.
    He will rebuild the cities of Judah.
    Then people will live there and own the land.
³⁶     The descendants of his servants will inherit that land.
    Those who love him will live there.

⁷ I am an example to many people.
    You are my strong protection.
⁸ I am always praising you.
    All day long I honor you.
⁹ Do not reject me when I am old.
    Do not leave me when my strength is gone.
¹⁰ My enemies have made plans against me.
    They meet together to kill me.
¹¹ They say, “God has left him.
    Go after him and take him.
    No one will save him.”

¹² God, don’t be far off.
    My God, hurry to help me.
¹³ Let them be ashamed.
    Destroy those who accuse me.
They are trying to hurt me.
    Cover them with shame and disgrace.
¹⁴ But I will always have hope.
    And I will praise you more and more.
¹⁵ I will tell about how you do what is right.
    I will tell about your salvation all day long,
    even though it is more than I can tell.
¹⁶ I will come and tell about your powerful works, Lord God.
    I will tell only about you and how you do what is right.

¹⁷ God, you have taught me since I was young.
    Even until today I tell about the miracles you do.
¹⁸ Even though I am old and gray,
    do not leave me, God.
I will tell the children about your power.
    I will tell those who will live after me about your might.

¹⁹ God, your justice reaches to the skies.
    You have done great things.
    God, there is no one like you.
²⁰ You have given me many troubles and bad times.
    But you will give me life again.
When I am almost dead,
    you will keep me alive.
²¹ You will make me greater than ever.
    And you will comfort me again.

²² I will praise you with the harp.
    I trust you, my God.
I will sing to you with the lyre.
    You are the Holy One of Israel.
²³ I will shout for joy when I sing praises to you.
    You have saved me.
²⁴ I will tell about your justice all day long.
    And those who want to hurt me
    will be ashamed and disgraced.

⁵ Help him live as long as the sun shines.
    Help him rule as long as the moon glows.
    Let him be king from now on!
⁶ Let him be like rain on the grass,
    like showers that water the earth.
⁷ Let goodness be plentiful while he lives.
    Let peace continue as long as there is a moon.

⁸ Let his kingdom go from sea to sea,
    and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
⁹ Let the people of the desert bow down to him.
    And make his enemies lick the dust.
¹⁰ Let the kings of Tarshish and the faraway lands
    bring him gifts.
Let the kings of Sheba and Seba
    bring their presents to him.
¹¹ Let all kings bow down to him.
    Let all nations serve him.

¹² He will help the poor when they cry for help.
    He will help the needy when no one else will help them.
¹³ He will be kind to the weak and poor.
    He will save their lives.
¹⁴ He will save them from cruel people who try to hurt them.
    Their lives are precious to him.

¹⁵ Long live the king!
    Let him receive gold from Sheba.
Let people always pray for him.
    Let them bless him all day long.
¹⁶ Let the fields grow plenty of grain.
    Let the hills be covered with crops.
Let the land be as fertile as Lebanon.
    Let the cities grow like the grass in a field.
¹⁷ Let the king be famous forever.
    Let him be remembered as long as the sun shines.
Let the nations be blessed because of him.
    And may they all bless him.

¹⁸ Praise the Lord God, the God of Israel.
Only he does such miracles.
¹⁹ Praise his glorious name forever.
    Let his glory fill the whole world.

⁴ They are not suffering.
    They are healthy and strong.
⁵ They don’t have troubles like the rest of us.
    They don’t have problems like other people.
⁶ So they wear pride like a necklace.
    They put on violence as their clothing.
⁷ They are looking for profits.
    They do not control their selfish desires.
⁸ They make fun of others and speak evil.
    Proudly they speak of hurting others.
⁹ They brag to the sky.
    Their mouths gossip on the earth.
¹⁰ So their people turn to them
    and give them whatever they want.
¹¹ They say, “How can God know?
    What does God Most High know?”
¹² These people are wicked,
    always at ease and getting richer.
¹³ So why have I kept my heart pure?
    Why have I kept my hands from doing wrong?
¹⁴ I have suffered all day long.
    I have been punished every morning.

¹⁵ God, if I had decided to talk about this,
    I would have let your people down.
¹⁶ I tried to understand all this.
    But it was too hard for me to see
¹⁷ until I went to the Temple of God.
    Then I understood what will happen to them.
¹⁸ You have put them in danger.
    You cause them to be destroyed.
¹⁹ They are destroyed in a moment.
    They are swept away by terrors.
²⁰ It will be like waking from a dream.
    Lord, when you come, they will disappear.

²¹ When my heart was sad and
    I was angry,
²² I was senseless and stupid.
    I acted like an animal toward you.
²³ But I am always with you.
    You have held my hand.
²⁴ You guide me with your advice.
    And later you will receive me in honor.
²⁵ I have no one in heaven but you.
    I want nothing on earth besides you.
²⁶ My mind and my body may become weak.
    But God is my strength.
    He is mine forever.

²⁷ Those who are far from God will die.
    You destroy those who are unfaithful.
²⁸ But I am close to God, and that is good.
    The Lord God is my protection.
    I will tell all that you have done.

⁴ Those who were against you shouted in your meeting place.
    They raised their flags there.
⁵ They came with axes raised
    as if to cut down a forest of trees.
⁶ They smashed the carved panels
    with their axes and hatchets.
⁷ They burned your Temple to the ground.
    They have made the place where you live unclean.
⁸ They thought, “We will completely crush them!”
    They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
⁹ We do not see any signs.
    There are no more prophets.
    And no one knows how long this will last.
¹⁰ God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of you?
    Will they insult you forever?
¹¹ Why do you hold back your power?
    Bring your power out in the open and destroy them!

¹² God, you have been our king for a long time.
    You have saved this country.
¹³ You split open the sea by your power.
    You broke the heads of the sea monster.
¹⁴ You smashed the heads of the monster Leviathan.
    You gave him to the desert creatures as food.
¹⁵ You opened up the springs and streams.
    And you made the rivers run dry.
¹⁶ Both the day and the night are yours.
    You made the sun and the moon.
¹⁷ You made all the limits on the earth.
    You created summer and winter.

¹⁸ Lord, remember how the enemy insulted you.
    Remember how those foolish people turned away from you.
¹⁹ Do not give us, your doves, to those wild animals.
    Never forget your poor people.
²⁰ Remember the agreement you made with us
    because violence fills every dark corner of this land.
²¹ Do not let your suffering people be disgraced.
    The poor and helpless people praise you.

²² God, come and defend yourself.
    Remember the insults that come from those foolish people all day long.
²³ Don’t forget what your enemies said.
    Don’t forget their roar as they rise against you always.

² You say, “I set the time for trial.
    I will judge fairly.
³ The earth with all its people may shake.
    I am the one who holds it steady. Selah
⁴ I say to those who are proud, ‘Don’t brag.’
    I say to the wicked, ‘Don’t show your power.
⁵ Don’t try to use your power against heaven.
    Don’t be stubborn.’”

⁶ No one from the east or the west
    or the desert can judge you.
⁷ God is the judge.
    He judges one person as guilty, and another as innocent.
⁸ The Lord holds a cup of anger in his hand.
    It is full of wine mixed with spices.
He pours it out even to the last drop.
    And the wicked drink it all.

⁹ I will tell about this forever.
    I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
¹⁰ He will take all power away from the wicked.
    But the power of good people will grow.

⁴ God, how wonderful you are!
    You are more wonderful than the hills full of animals.
⁵ The brave soldiers were stripped
    as they lay asleep in death.
Not one warrior
    had the strength to stop it.
⁶ God of Jacob, when you spoke strongly,
    horses and riders fell dead.
⁷ You should be feared.
    Who can stand against you when you are angry?
⁸ From heaven you gave the decision.
    And the earth was afraid and silent.
⁹ God, you stood up to judge
    and to save the people of the earth who were not proud. Selah
¹⁰ People praise you for your anger against evil.
    Those who live through your anger are stopped from doing more evil.

¹¹ Keep your promises to the Lord your God.
    From all around gifts should come to the God we worship.
¹² God defeats great leaders.
    The kings on earth fear him.

⁴ You keep my eyes from closing.
    I am too upset to say anything.
⁵ I keep thinking about the old days,
    the years of long ago.
⁶ At night I remember my songs.
    I think, and I ask myself:
⁷ “Will the Lord reject us forever?
    Will he never be kind to us again?
⁸ Is his love gone forever?
    Has he stopped speaking for all time?
⁹ Has God forgotten mercy?
    Is he too angry to pity us?” Selah
¹⁰ Then I said, “This is what makes me sad:
    For years the power of God Most High was with us.”

¹¹ I remember what the Lord did.
    I remember the miracles you did long ago.
¹² I think about all the things you did.
    I think about what you have done.

¹³ God, your ways are holy.
    No god is as great as our God.
¹⁴ You are the God who did miracles.
    You showed people your power.
¹⁵ By your power you have saved your people,
    the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ God, the waters saw you.
    They saw you and became afraid.
    The deep waters shook with fear.
¹⁷ The clouds poured down their rain.
    The sky thundered.
    Your lightning flashed back and forth.
¹⁸ Your thunder sounded in the whirlwind.
    Lightning lit up the world.
    The earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹ You made a way through the sea
    and paths through the deep waters.
    But your footprints were not seen.
²⁰ You led your people like a flock of sheep.
    You led them by using Moses and Aaron.

⁵ The Lord made an agreement with Jacob.
    He gave the teachings to Israel.
And he commanded our ancestors
    to teach them to their children.
⁶ Then their children would know them,
    even their children not yet born.
    And they would tell their children.
⁷ So they would all trust God.
    They would not forget what God had done.
    Instead, they would obey his commands.
⁸ They would not be like their ancestors
    who were stubborn and disobedient.
Their hearts were not loyal to God.
    They were not true to him.

⁹ The men of Ephraim had bows for weapons.
    But they ran away on the day of battle.
¹⁰ They didn’t keep their agreement with God.
    They refused to live by his teachings.
¹¹ They forgot what he had done
    and the miracles he had shown them.
¹² He did miracles while their ancestors watched,
    in the fields of Zoan in Egypt.
¹³ He divided the Red Sea and led them through.
    He made the water stand up like a wall.
¹⁴ He led them with a cloud by day.
    And he led them at night by the light of a fire.
¹⁵ He split the rocks in the desert.
    And he gave them much water, as if it were from the deep ocean.
¹⁶ He brought streams out of the rock.
    The water flowed down like rivers.

¹⁷ But the people continued to sin against him.
    In the desert they turned against God Most High.
¹⁸ They decided to test God
    by asking for the food they wanted.
¹⁹ Then they spoke against God.
    They said, “Can God prepare food in the desert?
²⁰ When he hit the rock, water poured out.
    Rivers flowed down.
But can he give us bread also?
    Will he provide his people with meat?”
²¹ When the Lord heard them, he was very angry.
    His anger was like fire to the people of Jacob.
    His anger grew against the people of Israel.
²² They had not believed God.
    They had not trusted him to save them.
²³ But he gave a command to the clouds above.
    The doors of heaven opened.
²⁴ He rained manna down on them to eat.
    He gave them grain from heaven.
²⁵ So they ate the bread of angels.
    He sent them all the food they could eat.
²⁶ He sent the east wind from heaven.
    He led the south wind by his power.
²⁷ He rained meat on them like dust.
    The birds were as many as the sand of the sea.
²⁸ He made the birds fall inside the camp,
    all around the tents.
²⁹ So the people ate and became very full.
    God had given them what they wanted.
³⁰ While they were still eating,
    and while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ God became angry with them.
    He killed some of the healthiest of them.
    He struck down the best young men of Israel.

³² But they kept on sinning.
    They did not believe even with the miracles.
³³ So he ended their days without meaning
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ Anytime he killed them, some would look to him for help.
    They would come back to God and follow him.
³⁵ They would remember that God was their Rock,
    that God Most High had saved them.
³⁶ But their words were false.
    Their tongues lied to him.
³⁷ Their hearts were not really loyal to God.
    They did not keep his agreement.
³⁸ Still God was merciful.
    He forgave their sins.
    He did not destroy them.
Many times he held back his anger.
    He did not stir up all his anger.
³⁹ He remembered that they were only human.
    They were like a wind that blows and does not come back.

⁴⁰ They turned against God so often in the desert!
    There they made him very sad.
⁴¹ Again and again they tested God.
    They brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember his power
    or the time he saved them from the enemy.
⁴³ They forgot the signs he did in Egypt
    and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He turned the rivers to blood.
    So no one could drink the water.
⁴⁵ He sent flies that bit the people.
    He sent frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to grasshoppers
    and what they worked for to locusts.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore trees with sleet.
⁴⁸ He killed their animals with hail
    and their cattle with lightning.
⁴⁹ He showed them his hot anger.
    He sent his strong anger against them.
    He sent his destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He found a way to show his anger.
    He did not keep them from dying.
    He let them die by a terrible disease.
⁵¹ God killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt,
    the oldest son of each family of Ham.^[a]
52 But God led out his people like sheep.
    He guided them like a flock through the desert.
⁵³ He led them to safety. They had nothing to fear.
    But their enemies drowned in the sea.
⁵⁴ So God brought them to his holy land.
    He brought them to the mountain country he took with his own power.
⁵⁵ He forced out the other nations.
    And he had his people inherit the land.
    He let the tribes of Israel settle there in tents.

⁵⁶ But they tested God
    and turned against the Most High.
    They did not keep his rules.
⁵⁷ They turned away and sinned just like their ancestors.
    They were like a crooked bow that does not shoot straight.
⁵⁸ They made God angry by building places to worship false gods.
    They made him jealous with their idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard them, he became very angry.
    And he rejected the people of Israel completely.
⁶⁰ He left his dwelling at Shiloh,
    the tent where he lived among men.
⁶¹ He let his Ark of the Covenant be captured.
    He let the Ark of the Covenant, which was his glory, be taken by enemies.
⁶² He let his people be killed.
    He was very angry with his children.
⁶³ The young men died by fire.
    The young women had no one to marry.
⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword.
    But their widows were not allowed to cry.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord got up as if he had been asleep.
    He awoke like a man who was drunk with wine.
⁶⁶ He struck down his enemies.
    He disgraced them forever.
⁶⁷ But God rejected the family of Joseph.
    He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
⁶⁸ Instead, he chose the tribe of Judah
    and Mount Zion, which he loves.
⁶⁹ And he built his Temple high like the mountains.
    Like the earth, he built it to last forever.
⁷⁰ He chose David to be his servant.
    He took him from the sheep pens.
⁷¹ He brought him from tending the sheep
    so he could lead the flock, the people of Jacob.
    This flock was his own people, the people of Israel.
⁷² And David led them with an innocent heart.
    He guided them with skillful hands.

⁵ Lord, how long will this last? Will you be angry forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like a fire?
⁶ Be angry with the nations that do not know you.
    Be angry with the kingdoms that do not honor you.
⁷ They have destroyed the people of Jacob.
    Those nations have destroyed the people’s land.
⁸ Don’t punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
    Show your mercy to us soon.
    We are helpless!
⁹ God our Savior, help us
    so people will praise you.
Save us and forgive our sins
    so people will honor you.
¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”
Tell the other nations in our presence
    that you punish those who kill your servants.
¹¹ Hear the moans of the prisoners.
    Use your great power
    to save those sentenced to die.

¹² Repay those around us seven times over
    for their insults to you, Lord.
¹³ We are your people, the sheep of your flock.
    We will thank you always.
    Forever and ever we will praise you.

³ God, take us back.
    Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

⁴ Lord God of heaven’s armies,
    how long will you be angry
    at the prayers of your people?
⁵ You have fed your people tears.
    You have made them drink many tears.
⁶ You made those around us fight over us.
    Our enemies make fun of us.

⁷ God of heaven’s armies, take us back.
    Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

⁸ You brought us out of Egypt as if we were a vine.
    You forced out other nations and planted us in the land.
⁹ You cleared the land for us.
    Like a vine, we took root and filled the land.
¹⁰ We covered the mountains with our shade.
    We had limbs like the mighty cedar tree.
¹¹ Our branches reached the Mediterranean Sea.
    And our shoots went to the Euphrates River.

¹² So why did you pull down our walls?
    Now everyone who passes by steals from us.
¹³ Like wild pigs they walk over us.
    Like wild animals they feed on us.

¹⁴ God of heaven’s armies, come back.
    Look down from heaven and see.
Take care of us, your vine.
¹⁵     You planted this shoot with your own hands.
    You raised and strengthened this child.
¹⁶ Now it is cut down and burned with fire.
    You destroyed us by your angry looks.
¹⁷ Help the man you have chosen.
    Make this human being strong for your service.
¹⁸ Then we will not turn away from you.
    Give us life again, and we will call to you for help.

¹⁹ Lord God of heaven’s armies, take us back.
    Show us your kindness so we can be saved.

I heard a language I did not know, saying:
⁶ “I took the load off your shoulders.
    I let you put down your baskets.
⁷ When you were in trouble, you called, and I saved you.
    I answered you with thunder.
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
⁸ My people, listen. I am warning you.
    Israel, please listen to me!
⁹ You must not have foreign gods among you.
    You must not worship any false god.
¹⁰ I, the Lord, am your God.
    I brought you out of Egypt.
    Open your mouth, and I will feed you.

¹¹ “But my people did not listen to me.
    Israel did not want me.
¹² So I let them go their stubborn way.
    They followed their own advice.
¹³ I wish my people would listen to me.
    I wish Israel would live my way.
¹⁴ Then I would quickly defeat their enemies.
    I would turn my hand against those who are against them.
¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would bow before him.
    Their punishment would continue forever.
¹⁶ But I would give you the finest wheat.
    I would fill you with honey from the rocks.”

⁵ “You know nothing. You don’t understand.
You walk in the dark,
    while the world is falling apart.
⁶ I said, ‘You are gods.
    You are all sons of the Most High God.’
⁷ But you will die like any other person.
    You will die like all the leaders.”

⁸ God, come and judge the earth.
    You own all the nations.

⁹ God, do to them what you did to Midian.
    Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
¹⁰ They died at Endor.
    Their bodies rotted on the ground.
¹¹ Do to their important leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb.
    Do to their princes what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
¹² They said, “Let’s take for ourselves
    the pasturelands that belong to God.”
¹³ My God, make them like the tumbleweed,
    like chaff blown away by the wind.
¹⁴ Be like a fire that burns a forest
    or like flames that blaze through the hills.
¹⁵ Chase them with your storm.
    Frighten them with your wind.
¹⁶ Cover them with shame.
    Then people will look for you, Lord.
¹⁷ Make them afraid and ashamed forever.
    Disgrace them and destroy them.
¹⁸ Then they will know that you are the Lord.
    They will know that only you are God Most High over all the earth.

⁵ Happy are those whose strength comes from you.
    They want to travel to Jerusalem.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
    they make it like a spring.
    The autumn rains fill it with pools of water.
⁷ The people get stronger as they go.
    And everyone meets with God in Jerusalem.

⁸ Lord God of heaven’s armies, hear my prayer.
    God of Jacob, listen to me. Selah
⁹ God, look at our shield.
    Be kind to your appointed king.

¹⁰ One day in the courtyards of your Temple is better
    than a thousand days anywhere else.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the Temple of my God
    than live in the homes of the wicked.
¹¹ The Lord God is like our sun and shield.
    The Lord gives us kindness and glory.
He does not hold back anything good
    from those whose life is innocent.
¹² Lord of heaven’s armies,
    happy are the people who trust you!

⁴ God our Savior, bring us back again.
    Stop being angry with us.
⁵ Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you stay angry from now on?
⁶ Won’t you give us life again?
    Your people would rejoice in you.
⁷ Lord, show us your love.
    Save us.

⁸ I will listen to God the Lord.
    He has ordered peace for his people who worship him.
    Don’t let them go back to foolishness.
⁹ God will soon save those who respect him.
    And his greatness will be seen in our land.
¹⁰ Love and truth will belong to God’s people.
    Goodness and peace will be theirs.
¹¹ On earth people will be loyal to God.
    And God’s goodness will shine down from heaven.
¹² The Lord will give his goodness.
    And the land will give its crops.
¹³ Goodness will go before God
    and prepare the way for him.

⁸ Lord, there is no god like you.
    There are no works like yours.
⁹ Lord, all the nations you have made
    will come and worship you.
    They will honor you.
¹⁰ You are great, and you do miracles.
    Only you are God.
¹¹ Lord, teach me what you want me to do.
    And I will live by your truth.
Teach me to respect you completely.
¹² Lord, my God, I will praise you with all my heart.
    I will honor your name forever.
¹³ You have great love for me.
    You have saved me from death.

¹⁴ God, proud men turn against me.
    A gang of cruel men are trying to kill me.
    They do not respect you.
¹⁵ But Lord, you are a God who shows mercy and is kind.
    You don’t become angry quickly.
    You have great love and faithfulness.
¹⁶ Turn to me and be merciful.
    Give me, your servant, strength.
    Save me, the son of your female servant.
¹⁷ Show me a sign of your goodness.
    When my enemies look, they will be ashamed.
    You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

⁵ They will say about Jerusalem,
    “This one and that one were born there.
    God Most High will strengthen her.”
⁶ The Lord will keep a list of the nations.
    He will note, “This person was born there.” Selah
⁷ They will dance and sing,
    “All good things come from Jerusalem.”

³ My life is full of troubles.
    I am nearly dead.
⁴ They think I am on the way to my grave.
    I am like a man with no strength.
⁵ I have been left as dead,
    like a body lying in a grave.
You don’t remember dead people.
    They are cut off from your care.
⁶ You have brought me close to death.
    I am almost in the dark place of the dead.
⁷ You have been very angry with me.
    All your waves crush me. Selah
⁸ You have taken my friends away from me.
    You have made them hate me.
I am trapped and cannot escape.
⁹     My eyes are weak from crying.
Lord, I have prayed to you every day.
    I have lifted my hands in prayer to you.

¹⁰ Do you show your miracles for the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you? Selah
¹¹ Will your love be told in the grave?
    Will your loyalty be told in the place of death?
¹² Will your miracles be known in the dark grave?
    Will your goodness be known in the land where the dead are forgotten?

¹³ But, Lord, I have called out to you for help.
    Every morning I pray to you.
¹⁴ Lord, why do you reject me?
    Why do you hide from me?
¹⁵ I have been weak and dying since I was young.
    I suffer from your terrors, and I am helpless.
¹⁶ You have been angry with me.
    Your terrors have destroyed me.
¹⁷ They surround me daily like a flood.
    They are all around me.
¹⁸ You have taken away my loved ones and friends.
    Darkness is my only friend.

⁵ Lord, the heavens praise you for your miracles
    and for your loyalty in the meeting of your holy ones.
⁶ Who in heaven is equal to the Lord?
    None of the angels is like the Lord.
⁷ When the holy ones meet, it is God they fear.
    He is more frightening than all who surround him.
⁸ Lord God of heaven’s armies, who is like you?
    Lord, you are powerful and completely to be trusted.
⁹ You rule the mighty sea.
    You calm the stormy waves.
¹⁰ You crushed the sea monster Rahab.
    By your power you scattered your enemies.

¹¹ The skies and the earth belong to you.
    You made the world and everything in it.
¹² You created the north and the south.
    Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon sing for joy at your name.
¹³ Your arm has great power.
    Your hand is strong. Your right hand is lifted up.