Psalms 76:10

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.

I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

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

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

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

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

“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.

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

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

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

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

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

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 there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

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

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

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?”

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.

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

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

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

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

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.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

“The king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. He will send out a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”