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25 O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You. I will praise Your Name. For You have done wonderful things, ancient counsel, with firm faithfulness!
2 For You have made a heap of a city, a ruin of a strong city, a fortress of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.
3 Therefore, the mighty people shall give glory to You. The city of the strong nations shall fear You.
4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his trouble, a refuge from the storm, a shade in the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a hard rain against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of the strangers, as the heat in a dry place. He will bring down the song of the mighty, as the heat with the shade of a cloud.
6 And on this mountain shall the LORD of Hosts make a feast of fat things for all people, a feast of refined wines, of fat things full of marrow, of refined and purified wines.
7 And on this mountain, He will destroy the covering that covers all people, and the veil that is spread upon all nations.
8 He will destroy death forever. And the LORD God will wipe away the tears from all faces. And He will take away the rebuke of His people out of all the Earth. For the LORD has spoken it.
9 And on that day men shall say, “Lo, this is our God! We have waited for Him, and He will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for Him! We will rejoice and be joyful in salvation!”
10 For on this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest. And Moab shall be threshed under Him, as straw is threshed in Madmenah.
11 And He shall stretch out His hand in the midst of them, as he who swims stretches out to swim. And with the strength of His hands He shall bring down their pride.
12 Also, He shall bring down the defense of the height of your walls and lay them low, cast them to the ground, into the dust.
26 On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, God shall set salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 “Open the gates so that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.
3 “By an assured purpose will You preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in You.
4 “Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD God is strength forevermore.
5 “For He will bring down those who dwell on high, The high city He will lay low, He will cast it down to the ground and bring it to dust.
6 “The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
7 “The way of the just is righteousness, You will make equal the righteous path of the just.
8 “Also, we, O LORD, have waited for You in the way of Your judgments. The desire of our soul is to Your Name and to the remembrance of You.
9 “With my soul have I desired You in the night. And with my spirit within me will I seek You in the morning. For seeing Your judgments on the Earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.
10 “Let mercy be shown to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness, he will do wickedly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 “O LORD, they will not behold Your high Hand. They shall see it and be confounded with the zeal of the people. And the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.
12 “LORD, to us You will ordain peace. For You also have wrought all our works for us.
13 “O LORD our God, lords besides You have ruled us. We will remember You only, Your Name.
14 “The dead shall not live, nor shall the dead arise, because You have visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memory.
15 “You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation. You are made glorious, You have enlarged all the territories of the Earth.
16 “LORD, in trouble have they visited You. They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
17 “Like a woman with child who draws near to the birth is in sorrow and cries in her pains, so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.
18 “We have conceived, we have born in pain, as though we should have brought forth wind. There was no help on the Earth, nor did the inhabitants of the world fall.
19 “Your dead men shall live, with my body shall they rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust. For your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the Earth shall cast out the dead.
20 “Come, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors after you. Hide yourself for a very little while, until the indignation passes over.
21 “For lo, the LORD comes out of His place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the Earth upon them. And the Earth shall disclose her blood, and shall hide her slain no more.”
27 On that day, the LORD, with His severe and great and mighty sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent. And He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 “On that day, sing of the vineyard of red wine!
3 “I, the LORD, keep it. I will water it every moment, lest anyone hurt it. I will keep it night and day.
4 “Anger is not in Me. Who would set the briers and the thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them. I would burn them, together.
5 “Or will he feel My strength, so that he may make peace with Me, be at one with Me?”
6 Hereafter, Jacob shall take root. Israel shall flourish and grow. And the world shall be filled with fruit.
7 Has he struck him, as he struck those who struck him? Or is he killed according to the slaughter of those who were killed by him?
8 In measure, when it stretches forth, you will contend with it. He blows, with his rough wind, on the day of the east wind.
9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. And this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sin, when he shall make all the stones of the altars as chalk stones broken in pieces. The groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet, the defensed city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed. And there shall he lie and consume its branches.
11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken. The women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore, He Who made them shall not have compassion on them. And He Who formed them shall have no mercy on them.
12 And on that day shall the LORD thresh from the channel of the river to the river of Egypt. And you shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
13 Also on that day shall the great trumpet be blown. And those who perished in the land of Assyria shall come, and those who were chased into the land of Egypt. And they shall worship the LORD on the Holy Mount at Jerusalem.
28 Woe to the crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim. For his glorious beauty shall be as a fading flower upon the head of the valley of fatness to those who are overcome with wine.
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail, a whirlwind that overthrows, like a tempest of mighty waters that overflow, which throw to the ground mightily.
3 They shall be trampled underfoot: the crown, the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.
4 For his glorious beauty shall be as a fading flower upon the head of the valley of fatness, as the first fruits before Summer. When one has looked upon it, he sees it. And while it is in his hand, he eats it.
5 On that day, shall the LORD of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of His people,
6 and for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn away the battle at the gate.
7 But they have erred because of wine and are out of the way due to strong drink. The priest and the prophet have erred by strong drink. They are swallowed up with wine. They have gone astray through strong drink. They fail in vision. They stumble in judgment.
8 For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting. No place is clean.
9 To whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make understand the things that he hears? Those who are weaned from the milk drawn from the breasts.
10 For “precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
11 For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language he shall speak to this people,
12 to whom He said, “This is the rest: give rest to him who is weary.” And, “This is the refreshing.” But they would not hear.
13 Therefore shall the Word of the LORD be to them “precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, here a little, there a little”, so that they may go and fall backward and be broken and be snared and be taken.
10 For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.”
11 And it is evident that no one is justified by the Law, in the sight of God. For the just shall live by faith.
12 And the Law is not of faith: but the one who shall do those things, shall live in them.
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”).
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit, through faith.
15 Brothers, I speak as man does: Though it be but man’s covenant, when it is confirmed, no one ignores it, or adds anything to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, “and to the seeds”, as speaking of many, but, “And to your seed”, as of one, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant that was previously confirmed by God in Christ, cannot be annulled by the Law, which was four hundred and thirty years after; so that it should make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of the Law, it is no more by the promise. But God gave it freely to Abraham by promise.
19 Why, then, the Law? It was added because of the transgressions; till the seed came, to which the promise was made. And it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator.
20 However, there is no Mediator of one. But God is one.
21 Is the Law, then, against the promises of God? Never may it be! For if there had been a Law given which could have given life, surely righteousness should have been by the Law.
22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise, by faith in Jesus Christ, should be given to those who believe.
61 Hear my cry, O God! Give ear to my prayer!
2 From the ends of the Earth I will cry to You. When my heart is oppressed, bring me upon the Rock that is higher than I.
3 For You have been my hope, a strong tower against the enemy.
4 I will dwell in Your Tabernacle forever. My trust shall be under the covering of Your wings. Selah.
5 For You, O God, have heard my desires. You have given a heritage to those who fear Your Name.
6 You shall give the king a long life. His years shall be as many ages.
7 He shall dwell before God forever. Prepare mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
8 So I will always sing praise to Your Name in performing, daily, my vows. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David
17 Do not let your heart be envious against sinners. But let it be in the fear of the LORD, continually.
18 For surely there is an end. And your hope shall not be cut off.
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