Job 37:7

Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;