And (A)the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land (B)as male and female slaves.[a] (C)They will take captive those who were their captors, (D)and rule over those who oppressed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:2 Or servants

(A)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
    foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

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14 (A)The sons of those who afflicted you
    shall come bending low to you,
(B)and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
(C)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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16 (A)Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured,
    and (B)all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
(C)those who plunder you shall be plundered,
    (D)and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

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25 (A)He shall speak words against the Most High,
    and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,
    and shall think to (B)change the times and the law;
and they shall be given into his hand
    for (C)a time, times, and half a time.
26 (D)But the court shall sit in judgment,
    and (E)his dominion shall be taken away,
    to be consumed and destroyed (F)to the end.
27 (G)And the kingdom and the dominion
    and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven
    shall be given to the people of (H)the saints of the Most High;
(I)his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom,
    and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 7:27 Or their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them

For (A)the coastlands shall hope for me,
    (B)the ships of Tarshish first,
(C)to bring your children from afar,
    their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
    and for the Holy One of Israel,
    because (D)he has made you beautiful.

10 (E)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and (F)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (G)Your gates shall be open continually;
    day and night they shall not be shut,
(H)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
    with their kings led in procession.
12 (I)For the nation and kingdom
    that will not serve you shall perish;
    those nations shall be utterly laid waste.

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20 (A)Rejoice over her, O heaven,
    and you saints and (B)apostles and prophets,
for (C)God has given judgment for you against her!”

21 Then (D)a mighty angel (E)took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon (F)the great city be thrown down with violence,
    and will be found no more;
22 and (G)the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters,
    will be heard in you no more,
and a craftsman of any craft
    will be found in you no more,
and (H)the sound of the mill
    will be heard in you no more,
23 and the light of a lamp
    will shine in you no more,
and (I)the voice of bridegroom and bride
    will be heard in you no more,
for (J)your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
    and all nations were deceived (K)by your sorcery.
24 And (L)in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
    and of (M)all who have been slain on earth.”

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18 But (A)the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’

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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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11 But after the three and a half days (A)a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, (B)“Come up here!” And (C)they went up to heaven (D)in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And at that hour there was (E)a great earthquake, and (F)a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and (G)gave glory to (H)the God of heaven.

14 (I)The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

15 Then (J)the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and (K)there were loud voices in heaven, saying, (L)“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of (M)his Christ, and (N)he shall reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders (O)who sit on their thrones before God (P)fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
    (Q)who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
    and (R)begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
    but (S)your wrath came,
    and (T)the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
    and (U)those who fear your name,
    both small and great,
and (V)for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

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Behold, I will make those of (A)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, (B)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that (C)I have loved you.

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27 For they were pleased to do it, and indeed (A)they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

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For (A)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (B)the city shall be taken (C)and the houses plundered (D)and the women raped. (E)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (F)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

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(A)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts

from a people (B)tall and smooth,
    from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide,

to (C)Mount Zion, the place of the (D)name of the Lord of hosts.

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18 (A)You ascended on high,
    (B)leading a host of captives in your train
    and (C)receiving gifts among men,
even among (D)the rebellious, (E)that the Lord God may dwell there.

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Therefore it says,

(A)“When he ascended on high (B)he led a host of captives,
    and he gave gifts to men.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:8 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. (A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love (B)serve one another.

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We destroy arguments and (A)every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to (B)obey Christ,

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begging us earnestly (A)for the favor[a] of taking part in (B)the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they (C)gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:4 The Greek word charis can mean favor or grace or thanks, depending on the context

65 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female (A)singers.

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