Judges 5:12

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

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.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

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

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

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?

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.