Psalms 9:11

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.

If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

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

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!

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

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.