Psalm 74-76

English Standard Version

Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause

A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)Asaph.

74 O God, why do you ^(B)cast us off forever?
    Why does your anger ^(C)smoke against ^(D)the sheep of your pasture?
²^(E)Remember your congregation, which you have ^(F)purchased of old,
    which you have ^(G)redeemed to be ^(H)the tribe of your heritage!
    Remember Mount Zion, ^(I)where you have dwelt.
³Direct your steps to ^(J)the perpetual ruins;
    the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

⁴Your foes have ^(K)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    ^(L)they set up their ^(M)own signs for ^(N)signs.
⁵They were like those who swing ^(O)axes
    in a forest of trees.^[b]
⁶And all its ^(P)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷They ^(Q)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they ^(R)profaned ^(S)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.
⁸They ^(T)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

⁹We do not see our ^(U)signs;
    ^(V)there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is none among us who knows how long.
¹⁰How long, O God, ^(W)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
¹¹Why ^(X)do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
    Take it from the fold of your garment^[c] and destroy them!

¹²Yet ^(Y)God my King is from of old,
    working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³You ^(Z)divided the sea by your might;
    you ^(AA)broke the heads of ^(AB)the sea monsters^[d] on the waters.
¹⁴You crushed the heads of ^(AC)Leviathan;
    you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
¹⁵You ^(AD)split open springs and brooks;
    you ^(AE)dried up ever-flowing streams.
¹⁶Yours is the day, yours also the night;
    you have established ^(AF)the heavenly lights and the sun.
¹⁷You have ^(AG)fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
    you have made ^(AH)summer and winter.

¹⁸^(AI)Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and ^(AJ)a foolish people reviles your name.
¹⁹Do not deliver the soul of your ^(AK)dove to the wild beasts;
^(AL)do not forget the life of your poor forever.

²⁰Have regard for ^(AM)the covenant,
for ^(AN)the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
²¹Let not ^(AO)the downtrodden ^(AP)turn back in shame;
let ^(AQ)the poor and needy praise your name.

²²Arise, O God, ^(AR)defend your cause;
^(AS)remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
²³Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
^(AT)the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

God Will Judge with Equity

To the choirmaster: according to ^(AU)Do Not Destroy. ^(AV)A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

75 We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, for your name is ^(AW)near.
We^[e] recount your wondrous deeds.

²“At ^(AX)the set time that I appoint
    I will judge ^(AY)with equity.
³When the earth ^(AZ)totters, and all its inhabitants,
    it is I who keep steady its ^(BA)pillars. Selah
⁴I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
    and to the wicked, ^(BB)‘Do not lift up your horn;
⁵do not lift up your horn on high,
    or speak with haughty neck.’”

⁶For not from the east or from the west
    and not from the wilderness comes ^(BC)lifting up,
⁷but it is ^(BD)God who executes judgment,
    ^(BE)putting down one and lifting up another.
⁸^(BF)For in the hand of the Lord there is ^(BG)a cup
    with foaming wine, ^(BH)well mixed,
and he pours out from it,
    and all the wicked of the earth
    shall ^(BI)drain it down to the dregs.

⁹But I will declare it forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
¹⁰^(BJ)All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,
^(BK)but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Who Can Stand Before You?

To the choirmaster: with ^(BL)stringed instruments. A Psalm of ^(BM)Asaph. A Song.

76 In Judah God is ^(BN)known;
    his name is great in Israel.
²His ^(BO)abode has been established in ^(BP)Salem,
    his ^(BQ)dwelling place in Zion.
³There he ^(BR)broke the flashing arrows,
    the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

⁴Glorious are you, more majestic
    ^(BS)than the mountains full of ^(BT)prey.
⁵^(BU)The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;
    ^(BV)they sank into sleep;
all the men of war
    were unable to use their hands.
⁶At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
    both ^(BW)rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷^(BX)But you, you are to be feared!
    Who can ^(BY)stand before you
    when once your anger is roused?
⁸From the heavens you uttered judgment;
    ^(BZ)the earth feared and was still,
⁹when God ^(CA)arose to establish judgment,
    to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

¹⁰Surely ^(CB)the wrath of man shall praise you;
    the remnant^[f] of wrath you will put on like a belt.
¹¹^(CC)Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
    let all around him ^(CD)bring gifts
    to him who ^(CE)is to be feared,
¹²who ^(CF)cuts off the spirit of princes,
    who ^(CG)is to be feared by the kings of the earth.

Footnotes

Psalm 74:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Psalm 74:11 Hebrew from your bosom
Psalm 74:13 Or the great sea creatures
Psalm 75:1 Hebrew They
Psalm 76:10 Or extremity

Revelation 20

English Standard Version

The Thousand Years

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, ^(A)holding in his hand the key to ^(B)the bottomless pit^[a] and a great chain. ²And he seized ^(C)the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and ^(D)bound him for a thousand years, ³and threw him into ^(E)the pit, and shut it and ^(F)sealed it over him, so that ^(G)he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

⁴Then I saw ^(H)thrones, and ^(I)seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw ^(J)the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those ^(K)who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. ^(L)They came to life and ^(M)reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ⁶^(N)Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such ^(O)the second death has no power, but they will be ^(P)priests of God and of Christ, and they ^(Q)will reign with him for a thousand years.

The Defeat of Satan

⁷And when the thousand years are ended, ^(R)Satan will be released from his prison ⁸and will come out ^(S)to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, ^(T)Gog and Magog, ^(U)to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. ⁹And ^(V)they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded ^(W)the camp of the saints and ^(X)the beloved city, but ^(Y)fire came down from heaven^[b] and consumed them, ¹⁰and the devil ^(Z)who had deceived them was ^(AA)thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where ^(AB)the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Judgment Before the Great White Throne

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence ^(AC)earth and sky fled away, and ^(AD)no place was found for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and ^(AE)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is ^(AF)the book of life. And ^(AG)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, ^(AH)according to what they had done. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, ^(AI)Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, ^(AJ)according to what they had done. ¹⁴Then ^(AK)Death and Hades ^(AL)were thrown into the lake of fire. This is ^(AM)the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, ^(AN)he was thrown into the lake of fire.