Habakkuk 3:2
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2 O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
Psalm 85:6
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6 Will You not (A)revive us again,
That Your people may rejoice in You?
Hosea 6:2-3
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2 (A)After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
3 (B)Let us know,
Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.
His going forth is established (C)as the morning;
(D)He will come to us (E)like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Psalm 90:13-17
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13 Return, O Lord!
How long?
And (A)have compassion on Your servants.
14 Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy,
(B)That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
15 Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us,
The years in which we have seen evil.
16 Let (C)Your work appear to Your servants,
And Your glory to their children.
17 (D)And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
And (E)establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Isaiah 51:9-11
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9 (A)Awake, awake, (B)put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake (C)as in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
(D)Are You not the arm that cut (E)Rahab apart,
And wounded the (F)serpent?
10 Are You not the One who (G)dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?
11 So (H)the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness;
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Philippians 1:6
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6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun (A)a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
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Lamentations 3:32
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32 Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
Habakkuk 3:16
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16 When I heard, (A)my body trembled;
My lips quivered at the voice;
Rottenness entered my bones;
And I trembled in myself,
That I might rest in the day of trouble.
When he comes up to the people,
He will invade them with his troops.
Isaiah 63:15-64:4
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A Prayer of Penitence
15 (A)Look down from heaven,
And see (B)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning (C)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
16 (D)Doubtless You are our Father,
Though Abraham (E)was ignorant of us,
And Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, O Lord, are our Father;
Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
17 O Lord, why have You (F)made us stray from Your ways,
And hardened our heart from Your fear?
Return for Your servants’ sake,
The tribes of Your inheritance.
18 (G)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
(H)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.
A Prayer for Help
64 Oh, that You would [a]rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your (I)presence—
2 As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
3 When (J)You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world
(K)Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
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- Isaiah 64:1 tear open
Psalm 119:120
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120 (A)My flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of Your judgments.
Jeremiah 10:24
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24 O Lord, (A)correct me, but with justice;
Not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.
Isaiah 54:8
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8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
(A)But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.
John 10:10
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10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
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Zechariah 1:12
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The Lord Will Comfort Zion
12 Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, (A)how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry (B)these seventy years?”
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Habakkuk 1:5-10
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The Lord’s Reply
5 “Look(A) among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe, though it were told you.
6 For indeed I am (B)raising up the Chaldeans,
A bitter and hasty (C)nation
Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful;
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are (D)swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [a]chargers [b]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the (E)eagle that hastens to eat.
9 “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings,
And princes are scorned by them.
They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
- Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about
Jeremiah 29:10
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10 For thus says the Lord: After (A)seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to (B)return to this place.
Jeremiah 25:11-12
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11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy (A)years.
12 ‘Then it will come to pass, (B)when [a]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; (C)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
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- Jeremiah 25:12 Beginning circa 605 b.c. (2 Kin. 24:1) and ending circa 536 b.c. (Ezra 1:1)
Psalm 138:7-8
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7 (A)Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch out Your hand
Against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will save me.
8 (B)The Lord will [a]perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever;
(C)Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
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- Psalm 138:8 complete
Psalm 44:1
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Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor
To the Chief Musician. A (A)Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.
44 We have heard with our ears, O God,
(B)Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:
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- Psalm 44:1 Heb. Maschil
2 Samuel 24:10-17
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The Judgment on David’s Sin(A)
10 And (B)David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So (C)David said to the Lord, (D)“I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have (E)done very foolishly.”
11 Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet (F)Gad, David’s (G)seer, saying, 12 “Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ” 13 So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall (H)seven[a] years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”
14 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, (I)for His mercies are great; but (J)do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
15 So (K)the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16 (L)And when the [b]angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, (M)the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of [c]Araunah the Jebusite.
17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely (N)I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
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- 2 Samuel 24:13 So with MT, Syr., Tg., Vg.; LXX three (cf. 1 Chr. 21:12)
- 2 Samuel 24:16 Or Angel
- 2 Samuel 24:16 Ornan, 1 Chr. 21:15
Numbers 16:46-47
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46 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make [a]atonement for them; (A)for wrath has gone out from the Lord. The plague has begun.” 47 Then Aaron took it as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and already the plague had begun among the people. So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people.
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- Numbers 16:46 Lit. covering
Revelation 15:4
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4 (A)Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are (B)holy.
For (C)all nations shall come and worship before You,
For Your judgments have been manifested.”
Romans 10:16
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16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, (A)“Lord, who has believed our report?”
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Daniel 9:2
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2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through (A)Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 52:31-34
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Jehoiachin Released from Prison(A)
31 (B)Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that [a]Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, (C)lifted[b] up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 32 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 So [c]Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, (D)and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life. 34 And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
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- Jeremiah 52:31 Or Awil-Marduk; lit. The Man of Marduk
- Jeremiah 52:31 Showed favor to
- Jeremiah 52:33 Lit. he
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