Psalms 74:23

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more.

I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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

So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

“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.

therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

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.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”