Psalm 2:4-12

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⁴He who ^[a]sits in the heavens ^(A)laughs,
The Lord ^(B)scoffs at them.
⁵Then He will speak to them in His ^(C)anger
And ^(D)terrify them in His fury, saying,
⁶“But as for Me, I have installed ^(E)My King
Upon Zion, ^(F)My holy mountain.”

⁷“I will announce the ^[b]decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are ^(G)My Son,
Today I have fathered You.
⁸Ask it of Me, and ^(H)I will certainly give ^(I)the ^[c]nations as Your inheritance,
And the ^(J)ends of the earth as Your possession.
⁹You shall ^[d]^(K)break them with a ^[e]rod of iron,
You shall ^(L)shatter them like ^[f]earthenware.’”

¹⁰Now then, you kings, ^(M)use insight;
Let yourselves be instructed, you ^[g]judges of the earth.
¹¹Serve the Lord with ^[h]^(N)reverence
And rejoice with ^(O)trembling.
¹²^[i]Kiss ^(P)the Son, that He not be angry and you perish on the way,
For ^(Q)His wrath may be kindled quickly.
How blessed are all who ^(R)take refuge in Him!

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Psalm 2:4 Or is enthroned
Psalm 2:7 Or decree: The Lord said to Me
Psalm 2:8 Or Gentiles
Psalm 2:9 Another reading is rule
Psalm 2:9 Or scepter; or staff
Psalm 2:9 Lit potter’s ware
Psalm 2:10 Or leaders
Psalm 2:11 Or fear
Psalm 2:12 I.e., probably kiss the feet of the Son

Isaiah 2:1-4

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God’s Universal Reign

2 The word which ^(A)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will come about that
^(B)In the last days
The ^(C)mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^[a]as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And ^(D)all the nations will stream to it.
³And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
So that He may teach us ^[b]about His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For ^[c]the law will go out ^(E)from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate for many peoples;
And ^(F)they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.
^(G)Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

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Isaiah 2:2 Lit on
Isaiah 2:3 Or some of
Isaiah 2:3 Or instruction

Isaiah 9:6-7

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⁶For a ^(A)Child will be born to us, a ^(B)Son will be given to us;
And the ^(C)government will ^[a]rest ^(D)on His shoulders;
And His name will be called ^(E)Wonderful Counselor, ^(F)Mighty God,
Eternal ^(G)Father, Prince of ^(H)Peace.
⁷There will be ^(I)no end to the increase of His government or of peace
On the ^(J)throne of David and over ^[b]his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with ^(K)justice and righteousness
From then on and forevermore.
^(L)The zeal of the Lord of armies will accomplish this.

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Isaiah 9:6 Lit be
Isaiah 9:7 I.e., David’s

Isaiah 11

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Righteous Reign of the Branch

11 Then a ^(A)shoot will spring from the ^(B)stem of Jesse,
And a ^(C)Branch from ^(D)his roots will bear fruit.
²The ^(E)Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of ^(F)wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and ^(G)strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes ^(H)see,
Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
⁴But with ^(I)righteousness He will judge the ^(J)poor,
And decide with fairness for the ^(K)humble of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the ^(L)rod of His mouth,
And with the ^(M)breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
⁵Also ^(N)righteousness will be the belt around His hips,
And ^(O)faithfulness the belt around His waist.

⁶And the ^(P)wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion ^[a]and the fattened steer will be together;
And a little boy will lead them.
⁷Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the ^(Q)lion will eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
⁹They will ^(R)not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the ^(S)earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰Then on that day
The ^(T)nations will resort to the ^(U)root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a ^(V)signal flag for the peoples;
And His ^(W)resting place will be ^[b]glorious.

The Restored Remnant

¹¹Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover with His hand the second time
The ^(X)remnant of His people who will remain,
From ^(Y)Assyria, ^(Z)Egypt, Pathros, Cush, ^(AA)Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the ^[c]^(AB)islands of the sea.
¹²And He will lift up a ^(AC)flag for the nations
And ^(AD)assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
¹³Then the ^(AE)jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be eliminated;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴They will ^(AF)swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the ^(AG)west;
Together they will ^(AH)plunder the ^[d]people of the east;
^[e]They will possess ^(AI)Edom and ^(AJ)Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be ^[f]subject to them.
¹⁵And the Lord will ^[g]^(AK)utterly destroy
The tongue of the ^[h]Sea of Egypt;
And He will ^(AL)wave His hand over the ^(AM)Euphrates River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make people walk over in dry sandals.
¹⁶And there will be a ^(AN)highway from Assyria
For the ^(AO)remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
On ^(AP)the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Isaiah 11:6 Some ancient versions will feed together
Isaiah 11:10 Lit glory
Isaiah 11:11 Or coastlands
Isaiah 11:14 Lit sons
Isaiah 11:14 Lit Edom and Moab will be the outstretching of their hand
Isaiah 11:14 Lit their obedience
Isaiah 11:15 Another reading is dry up the tongue
Isaiah 11:15 Perhaps the Red Sea

Zechariah 14:9-21

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God Will Be King over All

⁹And the Lord will be ^(A)King over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be the only ^(B)one, and His name the only one.

¹⁰All the land will change into a plain from ^(C)Geba to ^(D)Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but ^[a]Jerusalem will ^(E)rise and ^(F)remain on its site from ^(G)Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^(H)Corner Gate, and from the ^(I)Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. ¹¹People will live in it, and there will ^(J)no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will ^(K)live in security.

¹²Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^(L)rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. ¹³And it will come about on that day that a great panic from the Lord will ^[b]fall on them; and they will ^(M)seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ^[c]be raised against the hand of another. ¹⁴^(N)Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^(O)wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵And just like this ^(P)plague, there will be a plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

¹⁶Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will ^(Q)go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of armies, and to celebrate the ^(R)Feast of Booths. ¹⁷And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^(S)King, the Lord of armies, there will be ^(T)no rain on them. ¹⁸And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^(U)plague with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹This will be the ^[d]punishment of Egypt, and the ^[e]punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^(V)Holy to the Lord.” And the ^(W)cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^(X)holy to the Lord of armies; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^[f]^(Y)Canaanite in the house of the Lord of armies on that day.