Psalms 79 Cross References - NSB

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored (defiled) your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins. ² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to the birds for food. They have given the flesh of your godly ones to the animals. ³ They have shed the blood of your people around Jerusalem as though it were water. There is no one to bury your people. ⁴ We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. ⁵ How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire? ⁶ Pour your fury (anger) on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you. ⁷ They have devoured Jacob. They have destroyed his home. ⁸ Do not hold the crimes of our ancestors against us. Reach out to us soon with your compassion, because we are helpless. ⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Rescue us, and provide atonement for our sins for the honor of your name. ¹⁰ Why should the nations be allowed to say: Where is their God? Let us watch as the nations learn that there is punishment for shedding the blood of your servants. ¹¹ Let the groans of prisoners come into your presence. With your powerful arm (according to the greatness of your power) rescue those who are condemned to death. ¹² Pay each one of our neighbors back with seven times the number of insults they used to insult you, O Jehovah. ¹³ Your people, the flock in your pasture, will thank you forever. We will praise you throughout all generations.

¹⁵ Jehovah replied to him: »If anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.« Then Jehovah put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

¹⁶ »They shall come back here in the fourth generation. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.«

²³ Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God. ²⁴ God heard their groaning. He remembered his promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

⁷ »I will make you my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out from under the forced labor of the Egyptians.

⁵ »The Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah when I use my power against Egypt and bring the sons of Israel out of there.«

¹⁷ »You will bring them and plant them on your own mountain, the place where you live, O Jehovah, the holy place that you built with your own hands, O Jehovah.

³⁴ »Now, go and lead the people to the place I told you about. My angel will go ahead of you. But on the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.«

²¹ »‘If you act with hostility against me and are unwilling to obey me I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

²⁸ »‘I will resist you with great fury. I will discipline you seven times for your sins.

¹⁷ »Jehovah, let your power be as great as when you said, ¹⁸ »Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ »By your great love, please forgive these people’s sins, as you have forgiven them from the time they left Egypt until now.«

²⁶ »Your body will be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten them away.

³⁷ »You will become a thing of revulsion. All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you.

⁴³ »The alien who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

²⁰ Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

¹⁶ »They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.

²² My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.

⁹ »For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear about it, and will surround us and cut our name off from the earth. What will you do for your great name?«

⁷ »I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

¹⁸ She said to Elijah: »What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?«

¹² »‘Because of this,’ says Jehovah the God of Israel: ‘I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all who hear of it will burn. ¹³ »‘The line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab will be stretched over Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. ¹⁴ »‘I will discard the rest of my heritage. I will give them into the hands of their enemies. They will take their property and their goods for themselves. ¹⁵ »‘Because they have done evil in my eyes. They moved me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.’« ¹⁶ Even more, Manasseh killed many innocent men. He filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with blood. He also caused Judah to sin and do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹³ The Babylonians carried off to Babylon all the treasures in the Temple and the palace. As Jehovah foretold, Nebuchadnezzar broke up all the gold utensils King Solomon had made for use in the Temple.

⁴ An opening was made in the wall of the town. All the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls by the king's garden. The Chaldaeans were stationed around the town: and the king went by the way toward the plain of Arabah. ⁵ But the Chaldaean army went after the king. They overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho. All his army went in flight from him in every direction. ⁶ They made the king a prisoner and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged. ⁷ They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon. ⁸ It was the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ⁹ He had the Temple of Jehovah, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire. ¹⁰ The army of the Chaldaeans under the command of the captain of the army broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

¹¹ Asa prayed: »Jehovah, only you can help a powerless army defeat a stronger one. We depend on you to help us. We will fight against this powerful army to honor your name! We know that you will not be defeated. You are Jehovah our God. Do not let man prevail against you.«

³ The king of Egypt removed him from office in Jerusalem and fined the country seven thousand five hundred pounds of silver and seventy-five pounds of gold. ⁴ The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Necho took Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

⁶ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim and put him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. ⁷ Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of Jehovah’s Temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace (temple) in Babylon.

¹⁷ So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He did not spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him.

¹⁹ He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.

²¹ This fulfilled the word of Jehovah that was spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.

¹⁹ But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us. They laughed at us and said: »What are you doing? Will you go against the king?«

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. ² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: »What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?« ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him, and he said: Such is their building that if a fox climbs to the top of it, their stonewall will be broken down. ⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners.

¹⁶ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.

¹⁶ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds. ¹⁷ The grave is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.

⁵ »Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise,« says Jehovah. »I will provide safety for those who long for it.«

¹ ([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ² How long must I make decisions alone with sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

⁴ Are all the workers of wickedness, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on Jehovah?

³ You come to him with the blessings of good things. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

³ You are my rock and my stronghold. For the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.

⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth or my rebellious ways. O Jehovah, remember me in keeping with your loving kindness and your goodness.

¹¹ O Jehovah, for the sake of your name pardon my guilt, because it is great.

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

¹⁰ As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: »Where is your God?«

⁸ All day long we praise our God. We give thanks to your name forever.

¹³ You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. ¹⁴ You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

¹⁶ This is because of the words of those who insult and slander us, because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples will give you thanks forever and ever.

¹¹ Men will say: Truly there is a reward for the righteous. Truly there is a God who judges the earth.

¹⁶ Answer me, Jehovah, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. ¹⁷ Do not hide your face (turn away) from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

²⁴ Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

³³ For Jehovah hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture? ² Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago. For you have redeemed it to be the tribe of your inheritance, Mount Zion, in which you have lived. ³ Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. ⁴ Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

⁷ They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name. ⁸ They said in their hearts: »We will destroy them completely. They burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.« ⁹ We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet. There is no one who knows how long. ¹⁰ How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

¹⁰ How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Jehovah. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. ¹⁹ Do not deliver your turtledove (endeared) to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever. ²⁰ Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. ²¹ Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. ²² Arise, O God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day.

²² Arise, O God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man treats you with contempt all day.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread. They have not called upon God.

³ Iniquities prevail against me. You forgive our transgressions.

⁷¹ He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob, of Israel, the people who belonged to Jehovah.

¹⁰ Why should the nations be allowed to say: Where is their God? Let us watch as the nations learn that there is punishment for shedding the blood of your servants.

⁴ O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

⁶ You made us a source of conflict to our neighbors. Our enemies make fun of us.

⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come?

⁴¹ Everyone who passed by robbed him. He has become the object of his neighbors' scorn.

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?

¹ O Jehovah, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!

⁷ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today hear His voice!

¹² Why did you break down the stone fences around this vine? All who pass by are picking its fruit. ¹³ Wild boars from the forest graze on it. Wild animals devour it.

¹³ Wild boars from the forest graze on it. Wild animals devour it.

¹⁷ Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish, ¹⁸ That they may know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

³ Know that Jehovah is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

²⁰ He heard the groaning of the prisoner, to set free those who were doomed to death.

⁹ He will not always chasten, nor will he keep his anger forever.

⁴³ He rescued them many times, but they continued to plot rebellion against him and to sink deeper because of their sin.

¹ Do not give glory to us, O Jehovah. Do not give glory to us. Give glory to your name because of your loving kindness and faithfulness. ² Why should other nations say: »Where is their God?«

⁶ Jehovah protects defenseless people (simple ones). When I was weak, he saved me.

³ If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

⁷ As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.

⁶ Pay attention to my cry for help! I am very weak. Rescue me from those who pursue me because they are too strong for me.

⁴ One generation shall praise your works to another. They will declare your mighty acts.

¹⁸ Jehovah is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

⁶ He made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. He keeps truth (faith) forever! ⁷ He executes justice for the oppressed. He gives food to the hungry. Jehovah sets the prisoners free.

³¹ But if he is caught, he must repay sevenfold. He must give everything in his house.

¹ The pronouncement Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision. ² »Lift up a standard high on the mountain. Raise your voice to them. Shake the hand so they may enter the doors of the nobles. ³ »I have commanded my consecrated ones. I have called my mighty warriors. My proud ones are to express my anger, those who rejoice in my majesty (excellency). ⁴ »Listen! A sound of tumult on the mountains is like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms and nations gathered together! Jehovah of Hosts assembles (inspects) the army for battle. ⁵ »They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens (horizons). Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land. ⁶ »Shout (wail) (howl) for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. ⁷ »All hands will fall impaired (weakened). Every man's heart will melt (courage will fail). ⁸ »They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement (aflame). ⁹ »Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it. ¹⁰ »The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light. ¹¹ »I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also end the arrogance of the proud. I will demean (disgrace) the arrogance of tyranny. ¹² »I will make mortal man harder to find than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir. ¹³ »Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his burning anger. ¹⁴ »They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd. ¹⁵ »All who are found will be pierced through. All who are captured will fall by the sword. ¹⁶ »Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. ¹⁷ »I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. ¹⁸ »And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children. ¹⁹ Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ »It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there. ²¹ »But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there. ²² »Wild beasts will howl in her fortified towers and jackals in her luxurious temples. Her time also will soon come and her days will not be prolonged.«

¹ Like a whirlwind sweeping across the desert, disaster will come from a terrifying land. ² I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused. ³ What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor. ⁴ My innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. ⁵ They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; Rise up, captains, oil the shields, ⁶ For this is what Jehovah says to me: »Go, station the lookout, and let him report what he sees. ⁷ »When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, a train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.« ⁸ The watchman called out from the tower: »Sir, I stand on the watchtower every day. Every night, I stand guard at my post. ⁹ »Look! Here come chariots and horsemen in pairs. Then he said: ‘Babylon has fallen! She has fallen! All the idols they worship lie shattered on the ground.’« ¹⁰ You, my people, have been threshed and winnowed. I make known to you what I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel. ¹¹ This is the divine REVELATION ABOUT EDOM. He calls to me from Seir: »Watchman, what of the night? How much of the night is left? Watchman, what of the night?« ¹² The watchman replies: »Morning is coming, but also the night. If you would ask, then ask; and come back yet again.« ¹³ You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia, ¹⁴ bring water for the thirsty. You who live in Tema, bring food for the fugitives. ¹⁵ They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle. ¹⁶ This is what Jehovah says to me: »Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end. ¹⁷ »The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.« Jehovah, the God of Israel, has spoken!

¹ Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus (Kittim) word has come to them. ² Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched. ³ On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor. The harvest of the Nile River was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations. ⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: I have neither been in labor nor given birth. I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters. ⁵ When word arrives at Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre. ⁶ Crossover to Tarshish and cry you people of the island. ⁷ Is this your exultant city founded in antiquity? Is this the city that sent its people to settle in distant lands? ⁸ Who planned such a thing against Tyre, the city that produced kings? Its merchants are princes. Its traders are among the honored people of the world. ⁹ Jehovah of Hosts planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world. ¹⁰ Travel through your country like the Nile, people of Tarshish. You no longer have a harbor. ¹¹ Jehovah has stretched his hand over the sea to shake kingdoms. He has commanded that Canaan's fortifications be destroyed. ¹² He said: »You will exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.«

² Jehovah, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.

¹² The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away. His hand (power) is still stretched out (extended).

¹³ Look at the land of the Chaldeans. This is the people that were not. Assyria appointed it for desert creatures. They erected their siege towers and they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin! ¹⁴ Cry out O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed. ¹⁵ Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the lifespan of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: ¹⁶ »Take harp and walk about the city, O forgotten prostitute. Pluck the strings skillfully; sing many songs, that you may be remembered.« ¹⁷ It will come about at the end of seventy years that Jehovah will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her prostitute’s wages and will play the wanton woman with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. ¹⁸ The money she earns by commerce will be dedicated to Jehovah. She will not store it away, but those who worship Jehovah will use her money to buy the food and the clothing they need.

¹ Jehovah lays the earth waste, annihilates it, disfigures its surface and scatters its inhabitants. ² The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. ³ The earth will be completely uninhabitable and totally plundered. Jehovah has spoken this word. ⁴ The earth mourns and fades away, the world fades and withers, the exalted people of the earth mourn. ⁵ The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant. ⁶ A curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are found guilty. Therefore, those living on the earth are burned, and few men are left. ⁷ The new wine mourns, the vine decays and the merry-hearted sigh. ⁸ The joyful sound of tambourines ceases. The noise of revelers and the delight of the harp cease. ⁹ They no longer drink wine with a song. The beverage is bitter to its drinkers. ¹⁰ The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred and none may enter. ¹¹ In the streets they cry out for wine. Joy turns to gloom and rejoicing is banished from the earth. ¹² The city is left in ruins; its gate is battered to pieces.

²⁵ So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel. Yet we never knew what was happening. We learned nothing at all from it.

²¹ »I have formed these people for myself. They will praise me.

²⁵ »I alone am the one who is going to wipe away your rebellious actions for my own sake. I will not remember your sins anymore.

⁷ »You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

⁴ »For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one, I have called you by name. I have given you a title of honor, although you do not know me. ⁵ »I AM JEHOVAH AND THERE IS NO OTHER. THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES ME. I will strengthen you, although you do not know me.

⁶ »I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage and gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

⁹ »For my name's sake I will be patient. For my glory's sake I will hold my anger back from you, and not destroy you.

⁹ Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people. ¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland. ¹¹ Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

⁵ »‘They say: ‘Keep away! Do not come near me, for I am too sacred for you! Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.’ ⁶ »See, it stands written before me. I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps ⁷ both your sins and the sins of your fathers, says Jehovah. This is because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills. I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.«

³³ »The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

¹ Jehovah says: »At that time the bones of the kings and the leaders of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the others who lived in Jerusalem will be taken out of their graves. ² »They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky. These are the things that they had loved, served, gone after, sought, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered or buried, but they will become manure on the ground.

²⁵ Pour out your fury on the nations who do not know you and on people who do not worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

⁷ Do something, Jehovah, for the sake of your name, even though our iniquities testify against us. We have been unfaithful (like apostates) and have sinned against you.

¹⁶ »‘The people to whom they prophesy will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem. They will be victims of famines and wars. No one will bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour on them the destruction that they deserve.’

²¹ For the sake of your name, do not despise us. Do not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember your promise to us. Do not break it.

³ »I will appoint over them four kinds of punishment, declares Jehovah. I will send swords to kill, dogs to drag away, and birds of the air and animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

⁴ »They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.«

⁷ »I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.

⁹ »‘»I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.

¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

²⁹ »‘I am going to bring disaster on the city that is named after me. Do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished! I am declaring war on all those who live on earth,’ declares Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁸ »You show loving kindness to thousands, but repay the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O great and mighty God. Jehovah of Hosts is his name.

²⁰ I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their corpses will be food for birds and wild animals.

³³ »‘On that day those killed by Jehovah will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.’

¹⁸ »Years ago when Hezekiah was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth said: ‘Jehovah of Hosts says, »Jerusalem will be plowed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the Temple now stands.«’

⁸ The Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

¹ Jehovah spoke this message to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations. ² This is the message about [EGYPT], about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated his army at Carchemish along the Euphrates River during the fourth year that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah. ³ »Get your large and small shields ready and advance into battle. ⁴ »Harness your horses. Mount up, you horsemen. Take your positions, and put on your helmets. Polish your spears. Put on your armor. ⁵ »What do I see in them? They are terrified. They are retreating. Their warriors are defeated. They flee without looking back. Terror is all around them!« declares Jehovah. ⁶ The infantry cannot flee. The warriors cannot escape. They stumble and fall in the north by the Euphrates River. ⁷ Who is this, rising like the Nile River, like streams that flow swiftly? ⁸ Egypt is like the rising Nile River, like a river quickly overflowing its banks. Egypt says: »I will rise. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people in them.« ⁹ Go into battle, you horsemen. Drive wildly, you chariot drivers. March into battle, you warriors, you warriors from Sudan and Put who carry shields, you warriors from Lydia who use bows and arrows. ¹⁰ That day belongs to Jehovah of Hosts. It is a day of vengeance when he will take revenge on his enemies. His sword will devour until it has had enough, and it will drink their blood until it is full. The Almighty Jehovah of Hosts will offer them as sacrifices in the north by the Euphrates River. ¹¹ Go to Gilead, and get medicine, dear people of Egypt. You have used many medicines without results and cannot be cured. ¹² The nations have heard of your shame. Your cry fills the earth. One warrior will stumble over another, and both will fall together. ¹³ Jehovah spoke this message to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who will defeat Egypt. ¹⁴ »Tell this in Egypt. Announce this in Migdol. Make it known in Memphis and in Tahpanhes. Say: ‘Take your positions, and get ready. Swords will kill those around you. ¹⁵ »Why should your soldiers be cut down? They cannot stand because Jehovah will push them down. ¹⁶ »They have repeatedly stumbled and now they have fallen. They say to each other: ‘Get up! Let us go back to our people, to the land where we were born and escape our enemy's sword.’« ¹⁷ »There they will cry: ‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is a big windbag. He has missed his chance.’ ¹⁸ »‘As I live,’ declares the king, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts; ‘someone who is like Mount Tabor among the mountains will come. Someone who is like Mount Carmel by the sea will come. ¹⁹ »‘Pack your bags inhabitants of Egypt, because you will be taken away as captives. Memphis will become a dreary wasteland, a pile of rubble where no one lives. ²⁰ »‘Egypt is like a beautiful cow, but a horsefly (distruction) from the north will attack it. ²¹ »‘Egypt's hired soldiers are like fattened calves. They will turn and run away together. They will not stand their ground. The day of destruction is coming. At that time they will be punished.’ ²² »‘Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood. ²³ »‘They will cut down the forest,’ declares Jehovah, ‘since Egypt cannot be found. They are more numerous than locusts. They cannot be counted. ²⁴ »‘The people of Egypt will be put to shame. They will be handed over to the people from the north.’ ²⁵ »Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am going to punish Amon, who is the god of Thebes. I will also punish Pharaoh, Egypt, its gods, its kings, and whoever trusts Pharaoh.’ ²⁶ »‘I will hand them over to those who want to kill them, to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his officers. Afterward, they will live in peace as they did long ago,’declares Jehovah. ²⁷ »‘Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob. Do not be terrified, Israel. I am going to rescue you and your descendants from a faraway land, from the land where you are captives. Then Jacob's descendants will again have undisturbed peace, and no one will make them afraid. ²⁸ »‘Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob,« declares Jehovah. »I am with you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’«

⁷ »All who came upon them have devoured them. Their adversaries said: ‘We are not guilty. They have sinned against Jehovah who is the habitation of righteousness, Even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.’

³⁴ »The people of Jerusalem say: King Nebuchadnezzar made us panic. That monster (big snake) filled up with our treasures, leaving us empty. He gobbled down what he wanted and spit out the rest. ³⁵ »The people of Babylon harmed some of us and killed others. Now Jehovah will make them pay.

³⁵ »The people of Babylon harmed some of us and killed others. Now Jehovah will make them pay.

¹³ He burned down Jehovah’s Temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.

¹⁸ »Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.’

¹⁰ The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

¹⁵ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: »Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?« ¹⁶ All your enemies are opening their mouths wide against you. They hiss and whistle through their teeth and say: »We have made a meal of her. Certainly this is the day we have been looking for. It has come and we see it.«

¹ Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame.

³ He said: »Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day.

²⁰ ‘»Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them. ²¹ ‘»I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.

⁷ He said to them: »Dishonor the Temple! Fill its courtyards with dead people, and then leave.« So they went out and killed the people in the city.

⁹ »‘»But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name. In the presence of the people among whom they were living I had announced to Israel that I was going to lead them out of Egypt.

¹⁴ ‘»»I acted so that my name would not be dishonored among the nations who had watched me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

¹² »‘Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your insults you have spoken against the mountains of Israel. You said: ‘They are laid desolate. They are given to us for food.’

³ »Therefore prophesy and say: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side. That way you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become a subject of conversation for the people.

⁵ ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated my land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn, to drive it out for a prey.’«’

¹⁵ ‘I will no longer let you hear the insults from the nations. You will no longer suffer the disgrace of the people. You will never again take the children away from your own nation, proclaims the Lord Jehovah.«

²³ »I will reveal the holiness of my great name, which has been dishonored by the nations. It is the name that you have dishonored among them. Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah. This is because I will reveal my holiness among you as they watch,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.

²¹ »I will show my greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I will turn my power against them to punish them. ²² »From that day on, the people of Israel will know that I am Jehovah their God.

¹³ »They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of sacrifices, but I, Jehovah, do not accept these sacrifices. Now I will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins. They will go back to Egypt.

⁹ They have gone deep in depravity as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sins.

¹⁷ »Let the priests and the ministers of Jehovah weep between the Temple porch and the altar! Let them say: Spare your people, O Jehovah, and do not give reproach to your heritage. That the nations should rule over them and say among the peoples, ‘where is their God?«’

⁹ »To Jehovah our God belong mercies and forgiveness. We have rebelled against him.

¹⁶ »O Jehovah, according to all your righteousness, let your anger, I pray you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are round about us.

¹⁹ »O Jehovah, hear; O Jehovah, forgive; O Jehovah, pay attention and act! Do not delay for your own sake, O my God! Because your city and your people are called by your name.«

¹² It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

¹⁰ My enemy will see it and she will be filled with shame. She will ask: »Where is Jehovah your God?« My eyes will look upon her and she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

¹⁸ »Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah’s anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!«

⁸ »Wait for me,« said Jehovah, »until the day that I rise up as a witness. I am determined to gather the nations. I will assemble the kingdoms to pour out upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger! All the earth will be devoured with the fire of my zeal.

¹⁵ ‘And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease (secure). I was but a little angered and they caused my anger to grow into fury.’«

² »You must honor me by your actions. If you will not listen to what I say, and give glory and honor to my name, I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. I have already put a curse on you. Your blessings are cursed already because you do not take my command seriously.

¹³ »‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (the wicked one).’ (Psalm 82:4) (Psalm 97:10) (Matthew 13:19) (John 17:15) (1 John 5:19)

³² »Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers. ³³ »You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem) ³⁴ »Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city. ³⁵ »You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

³⁵ »You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ »I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation (those living at that time).

³⁸ »Give and it shall be given to you. You will receive a good measure. It will be pressed down, shaken together, running over and they will give it to you. For with the measure that you measure out it will be measured to you also.«

²⁴ »They will be killed by the edge of the sword. Some will be led captive into all the nations. The people of the nations will tread down Jerusalem until the time of the Nations is fulfilled.

³ »But they do these things because they do not know the Father or me.

²⁵ »Righteous Father, the world has not known you. I know you and those you sent me know you.

²³ »As I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: »To An Unknown God.« What you worship as unknown, this I will proclaim to you.

²⁸ They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.

³⁶ It is written: »For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.« (Psalm 44:22)

¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. The same Lord (God) of all is abounding in riches for all who call on him. ¹³ »Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.« (Joel 2:32) ¹⁴ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach?

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, instead leave room for divine punishment, for it is written: Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 32:35)

² To the congregation of God at Corinth. To you, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. You who are called to be holy ones, with all whom in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He is both their Lord and ours.

⁶ This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

²⁰ Now to him that is able to do far more abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

⁸ They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁰ They cried with a loud voice, saying: »How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?«

¹ I heard a loud voice from the temple say to the seven angels: Go your way, and pour out the bowls of the anger of God on the earth. ² The first poured out his bowl on the earth. A painful and grievous sore appeared on the men who had the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshiped his image. ³ Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. It became like the blood of a dead man, and every living being died in the sea. ⁴ Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and fountains of waters and they became blood. ⁵ I heard the angel of the waters say: »You are righteous, Jehovah, who are, and was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things. (Exodus 3:14) ⁶ »They have shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets. You give them blood to drink for they deserve it.«

⁶ »They have shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets. You give them blood to drink for they deserve it.« ⁷ I heard another say: »Even so, Jehovah God the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.« (Deuteronomy 32:4) (Psalm 145:17) (Exodus 6:3) ⁸ The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. Authority was given to him to scorch men with fire. ⁹ Men were scorched with great heat. They blasphemed the name of God, who has power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory. ¹⁰ Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became full of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. ¹¹ They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains, but they did not repent. ¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates. Its water was dried up so that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east. ¹³ I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ »Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his outer garment, that he does not walk naked and they see his shame.« ¹⁶ He gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Har-Magedon. ¹⁷ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven. It said: »It is done!« ¹⁸ There were voices, and thunders, and lightnings. There was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. ¹⁹ The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered Babylon the Great. He gave her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his anger (wrath). ²⁰ Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. ²¹ There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent (45 to 100 pounds). Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague was exceeding great.

⁶ I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered greatly.

⁵ »For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

²⁰ »Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God pronounced judgment for you against her.«

²⁴ »The blood of prophets, and of holy ones, and of all who were slain upon the earth was found in her.«

² »Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

⁹ The people and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and will look at them and refuse to bury them.