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43 You gave me victory over my accusers.
    You appointed me ruler over nations;
    people I don’t even know now serve me.

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You also will command nations you do not know,
    and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey,
because I, the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious.”

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That was the beginning of a long war between those who were loyal to Saul and those loyal to David. As time passed David became stronger and stronger, while Saul’s dynasty became weaker and weaker.

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10 “Once you had no identity as a people;
    now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
    now you have received God’s mercy.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:10 Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.

22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.

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The Seventh Trumpet Brings the Third Terror

15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven:

“The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,[a]
    and he will reign forever and ever.”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:15 Or his Messiah.

26 But now as the prophets[a] foretold and as the eternal God has commanded, this message is made known to all Gentiles everywhere, so that they too might believe and obey him.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:26 Greek the prophetic writings.

18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.

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12 And in another place Isaiah said,

“The heir to David’s throne[a] will come,
    and he will rule over the Gentiles.
They will place their hope on him.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:12a Greek The root of Jesse. David was the son of Jesse.
  2. 15:12b Isa 11:10 (Greek version).

31 Then God put him in the place of honor at his right hand as Prince and Savior. He did this so the people of Israel would repent of their sins and be forgiven.

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15 And he will startle[a] many nations.
    Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
For they will see what they had not been told;
    they will understand what they had not heard about.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 52:15a Or cleanse.
  2. 52:15b Greek version reads Those who have never been told about him will see, / and those who have never heard of him will understand. Compare Rom 15:21.

27 The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him.
    All the families of the nations will bow down before him.
28 For royal power belongs to the Lord.
    He rules all the nations.

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And throughout all the tribes of Israel there was much discussion and argument going on. The people were saying, “The king rescued us from our enemies and saved us from the Philistines, but Absalom chased him out of the country.

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