29 Let peoples serve you,
    and nations (A)bow down to you.
(B)Be lord over your brothers,
    and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
(C)Cursed be everyone who curses you,
    and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

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He crouched, he lay down like a lion
    and (A)like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
(B)Blessed are those who bless you,
    and cursed are those who curse you.”

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(A)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (B)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a]

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  1. Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves

23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(B)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (C)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (D)those who wait for me (E)shall not be put to shame.”

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12 she was told, (A)“The older will serve the younger.”

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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies, 18 and (D)in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, (E)because you have obeyed my voice.”

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  1. Genesis 22:17 Or their

25 he said,

(A)“Cursed be Canaan;
    (B)a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

26 He also said,

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem;
    and let Canaan be his servant.

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The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you (B)and be yours;
    they shall follow you;
    they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
    ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
    no god besides him.’”

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44 And in the days of those kings (A)the God of heaven will set up (B)a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. (C)It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and (D)it shall stand forever, 45 just as (E)you saw that (F)a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that (G)it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A (H)great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

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Thus says the Lord,
    (A)the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
(B)to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
    the servant of rulers:
(C)“Kings shall see and arise;
    princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
    the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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Of the increase of his government and of peace
    (A)there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
(B)with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
(C)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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May he have dominion from (A)sea to sea,
    and from (B)the River[a] to the (C)ends of the earth!

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  1. Psalm 72:8 That is, the Euphrates

47 (A)There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

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How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

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11 ‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’” 12 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for (A)they are blessed.”

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Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, (A)my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and (B)bowed down to my sheaf.”

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37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, (A)I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and (B)with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”

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16 On his robe and on his thigh (A)he has a name written, (B)King of kings and Lord of lords.

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45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, (A)you did not do it to me.’

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40 And (A)the King will answer them, (B)‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these (C)my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’

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  1. Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters

The Lord's Love for Israel

(A)“I have loved you,” says the Lord. (B)But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau (C)Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet (D)I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. (E)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’” (F)Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel!”

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“I have heard (A)the taunts of Moab
    and (B)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts (C)against their territory.
Therefore, (D)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (E)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (F)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from (A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from (B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    (C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

Why is your (D)apparel red,
    and your garments like his (E)who treads in the winepress?

(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    (G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption[b] had come.
I looked, but (I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    (J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
  2. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

He Will Tread Down Our Foes

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Shushan Eduth. A (B)Miktam[a] of David; (C)for instruction; when he (D)strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

60 O God, (E)you have rejected us, (F)broken our defenses;
    you have been angry; (G)oh, restore us.
You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;
    (H)repair its breaches, for it totters.
(I)You have made your people see hard things;
    (J)you have given us (K)wine to drink that made us stagger.

You have set up (L)a banner for those who fear you,
    that they may flee to it (M)from the bow.[b] Selah
(N)That your (O)beloved ones may be delivered,
    give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

God has spoken (P)in his holiness:[c]
    “With exultation (Q)I will divide up (R)Shechem
    and portion out the Vale of (S)Succoth.
(T)Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
    (U)Ephraim is (V)my helmet;
    Judah is my (W)scepter.
(X)Moab is my washbasin;
    upon Edom I (Y)cast my shoe;
    over (Z)Philistia I shout in triumph.”[d]

Who will bring me to the fortified city?
    (AA)Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Have you not (AB)rejected us, O God?
    You (AC)do not go forth, O God, with our armies.
11 Oh, grant us help against the foe,
    for (AD)vain is the salvation of man!
12 With God we shall (AE)do valiantly;
    it is he who will (AF)tread down our foes.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 60:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms
  2. Psalm 60:4 Or that it may be displayed because of truth
  3. Psalm 60:6 Or sanctuary
  4. Psalm 60:8 Revocalization (compare Psalm 108:10); Masoretic Text over me, O Philistia, shout in triumph

11 But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the (A)Valley of Salt and struck down (B)10,000 men of Seir. 12 The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces. 13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, (C)from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.

Amaziah's Idolatry

14 After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, (D)he brought the gods (E)of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

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