Job 40:19

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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

By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

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

if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

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.

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

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

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

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

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

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

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

to him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:

All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

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.

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, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

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

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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!

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,