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28 Because you have raged against me
    and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.(A)

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I will put hooks in your jaws
    and make the fish of your channels stick to your scales.
I will draw you up from your channels,
    with all the fish of your channels
    sticking to your scales.(A)

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33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.(A)

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The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
    The time is surely coming upon you
when they shall take you away with hooks,
    even the last of you with fishhooks.(A)

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I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will lead you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, all of them with shield and buckler, wielding swords.(A)

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Can you put a rope in its nose
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(A)

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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A)

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23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.(A) 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.(B)

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The World’s Hatred

18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.(A)

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11 But they were filled with fury and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

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With hooks they put him in a neck collar
    and brought him to the king of Babylon;
    they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
    on the mountains of Israel.(A)

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28 his breath is like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck—
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.(A)

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The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
    more majestic than the waves[a] of the sea,
    majestic on high is the Lord!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 93.4 Cn: Heb majestic are the waves

Even now your enemies are in tumult;
    those who hate you have raised their heads.(A)

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23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
    the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.(A)

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Your foes have roared within your holy place;
    they set up their emblems there.(A)

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You silence the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
    the tumult of the peoples.(A)

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The nations are in an uproar; the kingdoms totter;
    he utters his voice; the earth melts.(A)

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Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
    whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle,
    else it will not stay near you.(A)

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13 Why do the wicked renounce God
    and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?

14 But you do see! Indeed, you note trouble and grief,
    that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
    you have been the helper of the orphan.(A)

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Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God;[a] you have appointed a judgment.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.6 Or awake for me

Psalm 2

God’s Promise to His Anointed

Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
“Let us burst their bonds apart
    and cast their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord has them in derision.(C)
Then he will speak to them in his wrath
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,(D)

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36 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.(A) 37 As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.(B)

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