Isaiah 60:22

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.

It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them.

It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.