91 The burden of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach , with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men , especially of all the tribes of Israel , are toward the Lord ), 2 And Hamath also , which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon , though they are very wise . 3 For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust , And gold like the mire of the streets . 4 Behold , the Lord will dispossess her And cast her wealth into the sea ; And she will be consumed with fire . 5 Ashkelon will see it and be afraid . Gaza too will writhe in great pain ; Also Ekron , for her expectation has been confounded . Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza , And Ashkelon will not be inhabited . 6 And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod , And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines . 7 And I will remove their blood from their mouth And their detestable things from between their teeth . Then they also will be a remnant for our God , And be like a clan in Judah , And Ekron like a Jebusite . 8 But I will camp around My house because of an army , Because of him who passes by and returns ; And no oppressor will pass over them anymore , For now I have seen with My eyes .
9 Rejoice greatly , O daughter of Zion ! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem ! Behold , your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation , Humble , and mounted on a donkey , Even on a colt , the foal of a donkey . 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem ; And the bow of war will be cut off . And He will speak peace to the nations ; And His dominion will be from sea to sea , And from the River to the ends of the earth . 11 As for you also , because of the blood of My covenant with you, I have set your prisoners free from the waterless e pit .
12 Return to the stronghold , O prisoners who have the hope ; This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you. 13 For I will bend Judah as My bow , I will fill the bow with Ephraim . And I will stir up your sons , O Zion , against your sons , O Greece ; And I will make you like a warrior's sword . 14 Then the Lord will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning ; And the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet , And will march in the storm winds of the south . 15 The Lord of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and trample on the sling stones ; And they will drink and be boisterous as with wine ; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin , Drenched like the corners of the altar . 16 And the Lord their God will save them in that day As the flock of His people ; For they are as the stones of a crown , Sparkling in His land . 17 For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish , and new wine the virgins .
101 Ask rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain - The Lord who makes the storm clouds ; And He will give them showers of rain , vegetation in the field to each man . 2 For the teraphim speak iniquity , And the diviners see lying visions And tell false dreams ; They comfort in vain . Therefore e the people wander like sheep , They are afflicted , because there is no shepherd . 3 "My anger is kindled against the shepherds , And I will punish the male goats ; For the Lord of hosts has visited His flock , the house of Judah , And will make them like His majestic horse in battle . 4 "From them will come the cornerstone , From them the tent peg , From them the bow of battle , From them every ruler , all of them together .
5 "They will be as mighty men , Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle ; And they will fight , for the Lord will be with them; And the riders on horses will be put to shame . 6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah , And I will save the house of Joseph , And I will bring them back , Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them. 7 "Ephraim will be like a mighty man , And their heart will be glad as if from wine ; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad , Their heart will rejoice in the Lord . 8 "I will whistle for them to gather them together, For I have redeemed them; And they will be as numerous as they were before. 9 "When I scatter them among the peoples , They will remember Me in far countries , And they with their children will live and come back . 10 "I will bring them back from the land of Egypt And gather them from Assyria ; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon Until no room can be found for them. 11 "And they will pass through the sea of distress And He will strike the waves in the sea , So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down And the scepter of Egypt will depart . 12 "And I will strengthen them in the Lord , And in His name they will walk ," declares the Lord .
111 Open your doors , O Lebanon , That a fire may feed on your cedars . 2 Wail , O cypress , for the cedar has fallen , Because the glorious trees have been destroyed ; Wail , O oaks of Bashan , For the impenetrable forest has come down . 3 There is a sound of the shepherds' wail , For their glory is ruined ; There is a sound of the young lions' roar , For the pride of the Jordan is ruined .
4 Thus says the Lord my God , "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter . 5 "Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished e , and each of those who sell them says , 'Blessed be the Lord , for I have become rich !' And their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 "For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land ," declares the Lord ; "but behold , I will cause the men to fall , each into another's power and into the power of his king ; and they will strike the land , and I will not deliver them from their power ." 7 So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter , hence the afflicted of the flock . And I took for myself two staffs : the one I called Favor and the other I called Union ; so I pastured the flock . 8 Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month , for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me. 9 Then I said , "I will not pasture you. What is to die , let it die , and what is to be annihilated , let it be annihilated ; and let those who are left eat one another's flesh ." 10 I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces , to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples . 11 So it was broken on that day , and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord . 12 I said to them, "If it is good in your sight , give me my wages ; but if not, never mind !" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages . 13 Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter , that magnificent price at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord . 14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union , to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel .
15 The Lord said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd . 16 "For behold , I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing , seek the scattered , heal the broken , or sustain the one standing , but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs . 17 " Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock ! A sword will be on his arm And on his right eye ! His arm will be totally withered And his right eye will be blind ."
121 The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel . Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens , lays the foundation of the earth , and forms the spirit of man within him, 2 "Behold , I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around ; and when the siege is against Jerusalem , it will also be against Judah . 3 "It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples ; all who lift it will be severely injured . And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. 4 "In that day ," declares the Lord , "I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness . But I will watch e over the house of Judah , while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness . 5 "Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts , 'A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts , their God .' 6 "In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves , so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples , while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem . 7 "The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first , so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah . 8 "In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David , and the house of David will be like God , like the angel of the Lord before them.
9 "And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem . 10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the Spirit of grace and of supplication , so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced ; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son , and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn . 11 "In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem , like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo . 12 "The land will mourn , every family by itself ; the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves ; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves ; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves ; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves ; 14 all the families that remain , every family by itself and their wives by themselves .
201 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven , holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand . 2 And he laid hold of the dragon , the serpent of old , who is the devil and Satan , and bound him for a thousand years ; 3 and he threw him into the abyss , and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer , until the thousand years were completed ; after these things he must be released for a short time . 4 Then I saw thrones , and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God , and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image , and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand ; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years . 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed . This is the first resurrection . 6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection ; over these the second death has no power , but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years . 7 When the thousand years are completed , Satan will be released from his prison , 8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth , Gog and Magog , to gather them together for the war ; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore . 9 And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city , and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone , where the beast and the false prophet are also ; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever .
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away , and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead , the great and the small , standing before the throne , and books were opened ; and another book was opened , which is the book of life ; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books , according to their deeds . 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged , every one of them according to their deeds . 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire . This is the second death , the lake of fire . 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life , he was thrown into the lake of fire .
