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5 Now assemble your garrisons, O daughter of garrisons. He has laid siege against us. They shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 “And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, are small among the thousands of Judah. Yet out of you shall He come forth to Me Who shall be the Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from the beginning, from everlasting.”
3 Therefore, He will give them up until the time that she who shall bear has given birth. Then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
4 And He shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the Name of the LORD his God. And they shall abide. For now shall He be magnified to the ends of the world.
5 And He shall be our peace when Assyria shall come into our land. When He shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise seven shepherds against him, and eight principal men.
6 And they shall destroy Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with their swords. Thus shall He deliver us from Assyria when He comes into our land, and when He shall tread within our borders.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among many people, as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass that neither wait for man nor hope in the sons of Adam.
8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many people, as the lion among the beasts of the forest, as the lion whelp among the flocks of sheep, who when he goes through treads down and tears in pieces. And no one can deliver.
9 Your Hand shall be lifted up upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
10 “And it shall happen at that time,” says the LORD, “that I will cut off your horses from your midst. And I will destroy your chariots.
11 “And I will cut off the cities of your land and overthrow all your strongholds.
12 “And I will cut off your sorceries from your hand. And you shall have no more soothsayers.
13 “I will also cut off your idols, and your images from your midst. And you shall no longer worship the work of your hands.
14 “And I will uproot your asherim from your midst. So will I destroy your enemies.
15 “And I will execute a vengeance in wrath and indignation upon the heathen which they have not heard.”
6 Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise! Plead before the mountains! And let the hills hear your voice!”
2 Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s quarrel, and you mighty foundations of the Earth! For the LORD has a quarrel against His people. And He will dispute with Israel.
3 “O My people! What have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Testify against Me.
4 “Surely, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of servants. And I have sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.”
5 O My people! Remember now what Balak, king of Moab, had devised, and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with Burnt Offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you: surely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
9 The LORD’s voice cries to the city! And the man of wisdom shall see Your Name. “Hear the rod and Who has appointed it!
10 “Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 “Shall I justify the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights?
12 “For their rich men are full of cruelty. And their inhabitants have spoken lies. And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 “Therefore, I will also make you sick by striking you, by making you desolate because of your sins.
14 “You shall eat and not be satisfied. And your casting down shall be in the midst of you. And you shall take hold but shall not deliver. And that which you do deliver, I will give up to the sword.
15 “You shall sow, but not reap. You shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil and sweet wine, and shall not drink wine.
16 “For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the House of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a desolation and your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore, you shall bear the reproach of My people.”
7 Woe is me, for I am as the summer gatherings, as the grapes of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desired the first ripe fruits.
2 The good man has perished from the Earth, and there is no one righteous among men. They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his brother with a net.
3 To make good for the evil of both their hands, the prince asks and the judge judges for a reward. And the great man speaks out the corruption of his soul. So they weave it together.
4 The best of them is as a brier. And the most righteous of them is sharper than a thorn-hedge. The day of your watchmen and your visitation comes. Then shall be their confusion.
5 Do not trust in a friend, or put confidence in a counselor. Keep the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your bosom.
6 For the son reviles the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7 Therefore, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for God my Savior. My God will hear me.
8 Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy! Though I fall, I shall rise. When I shall sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.
9 I will bear the wrath of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. And I shall see His righteousness.
10 Then she who is my enemy shall look upon it. And shame shall cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes shall behold her. Now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.
11 This is the day that your walls shall be built. This day shall drive the decree far away.
12 Also at this time they shall come to you from Assyria and the strong cities, and from the strongholds to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13 Nevertheless, the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruits of their inventions.
14 Feed Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your heritage (who dwell solitarily in the forest) in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.
15 “According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show to him marvelous things.”
16 The nations shall see and be confounded for all their power. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent. They shall move out of their holes like worms. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of You.
18 Who is a God like You, Who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage! He does not retain His wrath forever, because mercy pleases Him.
19 He will turn again and have compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sins into the bottom of the sea.
20 You will perform truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers in days of old.
7 And after that, I saw four angels stand on the four corners of the Earth, holding the four winds of the Earth, so that the winds would not blow on the Earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel come up from the east, who had the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom power was given to hurt the Earth and the sea, saying,
3 “Do not hurt the Earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed. And there were sealed 144 thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Out of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
9 After these things I looked. And lo, a great multitude (which no man could number) of all nations and tribes and people and tongues stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with long white robes and palms in their hands.
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation comes from our God Who sits upon the throne, and from the Lamb.”
11 And all the angels stood around the throne, and around the elders, and the four beasts. And they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and might be to our God for evermore! Amen!”
13 And one of the elders spoke, saying to me, “Who are these who are clothed in long white robes? And from where have they come?”
14 And I said to him, “Lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those who came out of great tribulation and have washed their long robes and have made their long robes white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore, they are in the presence of the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His Temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, nor thirst anymore, nor shall the Sun fall upon them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb, Who is in the midst of the throne, shall govern them and shall lead them to the lively fountains of waters. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
135 Praise the Name of the LORD, you servants of the LORD! Praise,
2 you who stand in the House of the LORD and in the courts of the House of our God!
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good! Sing praises to His Name; for it is a sweet thing.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself and Israel for His chief treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great and that our LORD is above all gods.
6 Whatever pleased the LORD, He did in Heaven and on Earth, in the sea and in all the depths.
7 He brings up the clouds from the ends of the Earth and makes the lightning with the rain. He draws forth the wind out of His treasures.
8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt (of both man and beast).
9 He has sent signs and wonders into the midst of You, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants.
10 He struck many nations and slew mighty Kings—
11 Sihon, King of the Amorites and Og, King of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
12 and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel, His people.
13 Your Name, O LORD, endures forever! O LORD, Your remembrance is from generation to generation.
14 For the LORD will judge His people and be pacified toward His servants.
15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
16 They have a mouth and do not speak. They have eyes and do not see.
17 They have ears and do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouth.
18 Those who make them are like them, all who trust in them.
19 Praise the LORD, you House of Israel! Praise the LORD, you House of Aaron!
20 Praise the LORD, you House of Levi! You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!
21 Praise the LORD out of Zion, Who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!
5 Every Word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust in Him.
6 Add nothing to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
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