Psalms 96:9

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

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

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;

All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.

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.

He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.

“ ‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

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

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

He will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.