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Listen to today's reading by Tom Dooley © MasterMedia Ministries/Tyndale.
This content from World English Bible (public domain)
A revelation of Yahweh’s word concerning Israel: Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. It will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness. I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them. It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me [After “me”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker. ]whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn. In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo. The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
“In that day there will be a fountain opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land. It will happen that when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name ;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies. It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive, but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.’ One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
“Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh,
“two parts in it will be cut off and die;
but the third will be left in it.
I will bring the third part into the fire,
and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
I will say, ‘It is my people ;’
and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’” (WEB)
This content from OpenEnglishBible (public domain)
After this, I heard what seemed to be a great shout from a vast throng in heaven, crying –
‘Hallelujah! To our God belong salvation, and glory, and Power, for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has passed judgment on the Great Harlot who was corrupting the earth by her licentiousness, and he has taken vengeance on her for the blood of his servants.’
Again they cried – ‘Hallelujah!’ And the smoke from her ruins rises for ever and ever. Then the twenty-four elders and the Four creatures prostrated themselves and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, crying – ‘Amen, Hallelujah!’; and from the throne there came a voice which said –
‘Praise our God all you who serve him, You who worship him, both high and low.’
Then I heard what seemed to be the shout of a vast throng, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of loud peals of thunder, crying –
‘Hallelujah! For the Lord is king, our God, the Almighty. Let us rejoice and exalt; and we will pay him honor, for the hour for the Marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready. And to her it has been granted to robe herself in fine linen, white and pure, for that linen is the good deeds of the people of Christ.’
Then a voice said to me ‘Write – “Blessed are those who have been summoned to the marriage feast of the Lamb.”’ And the voice said – ‘These words of God are true.’ I prostrated myself at the feet of him who spoke to worship him, but he said to me – ‘No! I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your brothers and sisters who bear their testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For to bear testimony to Jesus needs the inspiration of the prophets.’ Then I saw that heaven lay open. There appears a white horse; its rider is called ‘Faithful’ and ‘True’; righteously does he judge and make war. His eyes are flaming fires; on his head there are many diadems, and he bears a name, written, which no one knows but himself; he has been clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood; and the name by which he is called is ‘The Word of God.’ The armies of heaven followed him, mounted on white horses and clothed in fine linen, white and pure. From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to smite the nations; and he will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the grapes in the press of the maddening wine of the wrath of Almighty God; and on his robe and on his thigh he has this name written – ‘KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.’
Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He cried in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven – ‘Gather and come to the great feast of God, to eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all free and enslaved, and of high and low.’ Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight with him who sat on the horse and with his army. The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the lake of fire – of burning sulfur. The rest were killed by the sword which came out of the mouth of him who rode on the horse; and all the birds fed on their flesh. (OEB)
Revelation 19:7: Hallelujah, Our God Reigns
Revelation 19:1: Sing Hallelujah
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Hallelujah.
It is good to sing praise to our God,
for praise is sweet and seemly.
The Lᴏʀᴅ Lord builds up Jerusalem,
the outcasts of Israel he gathers.
He heals the broken in heart,
and binds up their wounds.
He counts the numberless stars,
he gives names to them all.
Great is our Lᴏʀᴅ Lord, rich in power,
and measureless is his wisdom.
The Lᴏʀᴅ Lord lifts up the down-trodden,
the wicked he brings to the ground.
Sing songs of thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ Lord,
and play on the lyre to our God.
For he covers the sky with clouds,
he prepares rain for the earth,
makes grass to grow on the mountains.
He gives the cattle their food
the young ravens when they cry.
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,
his joy is not in the speed of a runner;
but the Lᴏʀᴅ Lord has his pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who wait for his kindness.
Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ Lord, then, O Jerusalem:
sing praise to your God, O Zion.
For he strengthens the bars of your gates,
and blesses your children within you.
He brings peace to your borders,
and choicest of wheat in abundance.
He sends his command to the earth:
his word runs very swiftly.
Snow he gives like wool,
frost he scatters like ashes.
He casts forth his ice like morsels:
who can stand before his cold?
He sends forth his word, and melts them:
his wind blows the waters flow.
He declares his word to Jacob,
his statutes and judgments to Israel.
No other nation did he do this for,
they know nothing of his judgments.
Hallelujah.
(OEB)
This content pulled from bible.org.
The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him: O my son, O son of my womb,O son of my vows, do not give your strength to women,nor your ways to that which ruins kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel,it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to crave strong drink, lest they drink and forget what is decreedand remove from all the poor their legal rights. Give strong drink to the one who is perishing and wine to those who are bitterly distressed; let them drink and forget their poverty,and remember their misery no more.
(NET)