Psalms 99:1

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.

If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,

The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits above the cherubim.

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

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

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

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

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.

I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.

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.

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

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

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

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

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

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

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,

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil; Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns!”

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

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.

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

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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

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

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

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.’

The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea.

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles; and the cry is heard among the nations.

It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.