Luke 19:40
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40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”(A)
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Habakkuk 2:11
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11 The very stones will cry out from the wall,
and the rafter will respond from the woodwork.
Isaiah 55:12
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12 For you shall go out in joy
and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall burst into song,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.(A)
Psalm 96:11
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11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
let the sea roar and all that fills it;(A)
Matthew 3:9
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9 and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.(A)
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Psalm 98:7-9
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7 Let the sea roar and all that fills it,
the world and those who live in it.(A)
8 Let the floods clap their hands;
let the hills sing together for joy(B)
9 at the presence of the Lord, for he is coming
to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
and the peoples with equity.(C)
Matthew 27:51-54
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51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split.(A) 52 The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now when the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”[a](B)
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- 27.54 Or a son of God
Psalm 114
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Psalm 114
God’s Wonders at the Exodus
1 [a]When Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,(A)
2 Judah became God’s[b] sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.(B)
3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.(C)
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.(D)
5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,(E)
8 who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.(F)
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- 114.1 Psalms 114–115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses
- 114.2 Heb his
Matthew 21:15-16
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15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard[a] the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry(A) 16 and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself’?”(B)
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- 21.15 Gk lacks heard
2 Peter 2:6
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6 and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction[a] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[b]
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Matthew 27:45
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The Death of Jesus
45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land[a] until three in the afternoon.(A)
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- 27.45 Or earth
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