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Psalm 132:1-18

Lord, Remember David,

And all his afflictions:

²  How he sware unto the Lord,

And vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;

³  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house,

Nor go up into my bed;

⁴  I will not give sleep to mine eyes,

Or slumber to mine eyelids,

⁵  Until I find out a place for the Lord,

An habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

⁶  Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah:

We found it in the fields of the wood.

⁷  We will go into his tabernacles:

We will worship at his footstool.

⁸  Arise, O Lord, into thy rest;

Thou, and the ⁿark of thy strength.

⁹  Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness;

And let thy saints shout for joy.

¹⁰  For thy servant David’s sake

Turn not away the face of thine anointed.

¹¹  The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David;

He will not turn from it;

Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

¹²  If thy children will keep my covenant

And my testimony that I shall teach them,

Their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

¹³  For the Lord hath chosen Zion;

He hath desired it for his habitation.

¹⁴  This is my rest for ever:

Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

¹⁵  I will abundantly bless her provision:

I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁶  I will also clothe her priests with salvation:

And her ^esaints shall shout aloud for joy.

¹⁷  There will I make the horn of David to bud:

I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

¹⁸  His enemies will I clothe with shame:

But upon himself shall his crown flourish.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ps 132:1–18.

Isaiah 4:2

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious,

And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely

For them that are escaped of Israel.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 4:2.

Isaiah 9:6-7

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

And the government shall be upon his shoulder:

And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God,

The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

⁷  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,

Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,

To order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice

From henceforth even for ever.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 9:6–7.

2 Samuel 23:5

Although my house be not so with God;

Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant,

Ordered in all things, and sure:

For this is all my salvation, and all my desire,

Although he make it not to grow.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 2 Sa 23:5.

Isaiah 11:1-4

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,

And a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

²  And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

The spirit of wisdom and understanding,

The spirit of counsel and might,

The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

³  And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord:

And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,

Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

⁴  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,

And reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:

And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

And with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 11:1–4.

Revelation 19

And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: ² For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and ⁱhath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. ³ And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. ⁴ And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. ⁵ And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, ^qboth small and great. ⁶ And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. ⁷ Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. ⁸ And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. ⁹ And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. ¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

¹¹ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called ^sFaithful and ^tTrue, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. ¹² His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. ¹³ And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and ^ghe treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. ¹⁶ And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. ²¹ And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 19:1–21.

Ezekiel 29:21

In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Eze 29:21.

Psalm 46:1-1

God is our refuge and strength,

A very present help in trouble.

²  Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,

And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

³  Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

⁴  There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

⁵  God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:

God shall help her, and that right early.

⁶  The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:

He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁷  The Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁸  Come, behold the works of the Lord,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

⁹  He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;

He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;

He burneth the chariot in the fire.

¹⁰  Be still, and know that I am God:

I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

¹¹  The Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ps 46:1–11.

Isaiah 53

Who hath believed our ^†report?

And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

²  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of a dry ground:

He hath no form nor comeliness;

And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

³  He is despised and rejected of men;

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And ^†we hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴  Surely he hath borne our griefs,

And carried our sorrows:

Yet we did esteem him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵  But he was ^pwounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities:

The chastisement of our peace was upon him;

And ^swith his stripes we are healed.

^{6  t}All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned every one to his own way;

And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

Yet he opened not his mouth:

^zHe is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,

And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,

So he openeth not his mouth.

^{8  ||}He was taken from prison and from judgment:

And who shall declare his generation?

For he was cut off out of the land of the living:

For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

⁹  And he made his grave with the wicked,

And with the rich in his death;

Because he had done no violence,

Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:

ⁱWhen thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,

He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,

And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

¹¹  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:

By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;

For he shall bear their iniquities.

¹²  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

And he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

Because he hath poured out his soul unto death:

And he was numbered with the transgressors;

And he bare the sin of many,

And made intercession for the transgressors.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 53:1–12.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion;

Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee:

He is just, and having salvation;

ⁱLowly, and riding upon an donkey,

And upon a colt the foal of an donkey.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Zec 9:9.

Ezekiel 29:21

In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Eze 29:21.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord hath chosen Zion;

He hath desired it for his habitation.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ps 132:13.

Jeremiah 33:14

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Je 33:14.

Zechariah 3:8

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou,

And thy fellows that sit before thee:

For they are men wondered at:

For, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Zec 3:8.

Ezekiel 6:9-13

And they that escape of you ^pshall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and ^tthey shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. ¹⁰ And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. ¹² He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. ¹³ Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Eze 6:9–13.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ac 24:5.