The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and (A)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
(B)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    (C)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

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(A)Before him went pestilence,
    and plague followed (B)at his heels.[a]
He stood (C)and measured the earth;
    he looked and shook the nations;
then the (D)eternal mountains (E)were scattered;
    the everlasting hills sank low.
    His were (F)the everlasting ways.

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  1. Habakkuk 3:5 Hebrew feet

(A)The mountains quake before him;
    (B)the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    (C)the world and all who dwell in it.

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And (A)the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
    like waters poured down a steep place.

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11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before (B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    (C)he who executes his word is powerful.
(D)For the day of the Lord is (E)great and very awesome;
    (F)who can endure it?

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13 The Lord also (A)thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his (B)voice,
    hailstones and coals of fire.

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10 But (A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then (B)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and (C)the heavenly bodies[a] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.[b]

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, (D)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 (E)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and (F)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

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  1. 2 Peter 3:10 Or elements; also verse 12
  2. 2 Peter 3:10 Greek found; some manuscripts will be burned up

10 (A)The mountains saw you and writhed;
    the raging waters swept on;
(B)the deep gave forth its voice;
    (C)it lifted its hands on high.
11 (D)The sun and moon stood still in their place
    (E)at the light of your arrows as they sped,
    at the flash of your glittering spear.

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13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
(B)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.

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Judgment on Israel's Neighbors

And he said:

(A)“The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
(B)the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
    and the (C)top of (D)Carmel withers.”

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30 “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:

(A)“‘The Lord will roar from on high,
    and from his holy habitation utter his voice;
he will roar mightily against his fold,
    (B)and shout, like those who tread grapes,
    against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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64 (A)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    (B)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
[a] as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
(C)to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

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  1. Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew

Sennacherib's Fall

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
    Against (B)the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, (C)With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon,
(D)to cut down its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
    its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
    and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
    all (E)the streams (F)of Egypt.

26 (G)“‘Have you not heard
    that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
    what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
    crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
    blighted[a] before it is grown.

28 “‘I know your sitting down
    and your going out and coming in,
    and your raging against me.
29 (H)Because you have raged against me
    and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and (I)I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.’

30 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah (J)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 (K)For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. (L)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or (M)cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 (N)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for (O)the sake of my servant David.”

36 (P)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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  1. Isaiah 37:27 Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts a field

12 “How (A)you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, (B)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
    (C)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    (D)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far reaches of the north;[a]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
    I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 (E)But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this (F)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,

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  1. Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon

Be broken,[a] you peoples, and (A)be shattered;[b]
    give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
    strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
    speak a word, (B)but it will not stand,
    for God (C)is with us.[c]

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  1. Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
  2. Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
  3. Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel

The mountains (A)melt like (B)wax before the Lord,
    before (C)the Lord of all the earth.

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For behold, your enemies (A)make an uproar;
    those who hate you have (B)raised their heads.
They lay (C)crafty plans against your people;
    they consult together against your (D)treasured ones.
They say, “Come, (E)let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
For they conspire with one accord;
    against you they make a covenant—
the tents of (F)Edom and (G)the Ishmaelites,
    (H)Moab and (I)the Hagrites,
(J)Gebal and (K)Ammon and (L)Amalek,
    (M)Philistia with the inhabitants of (N)Tyre;
(O)Asshur also has joined them;
    they are the strong arm of (P)the children of Lot. Selah

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33 to him (A)who rides in (B)the heavens, the ancient heavens;
    behold, he (C)sends out his voice, his mighty voice.

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(A)the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,
    before God, the One of Sinai,
    before God,[a] the God of Israel.

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  1. Psalm 68:8 Or before God, even Sinai before God

The Reign of the Lord's Anointed

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

He who (E)sits in the heavens (F)laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.

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  1. Psalm 2:1 Or nations noisily assemble

20 And they rose early in the morning and went out into (A)the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! (B)Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.” 21 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him (C)in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say,

(D)“Give thanks to the Lord,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.”

22 And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set (E)an ambush against the men of (F)Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. 23 For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, (G)they all helped to destroy one another.

The Lord Delivers Judah

24 When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there[a] were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:24 Hebrew they

Jehoshaphat's Prayer

20 After this (A)the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites,[a] came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:1 Compare 26:7; Hebrew Ammonites

Zerah (A)the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as (B)Mareshah. 10 And Asa went out to meet him, and (C)they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at (D)Mareshah. 11 And Asa (E)cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, (F)for we rely on you, (G)and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.” 12 (H)So the Lord defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as (I)Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah[a] carried away very much spoil.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 14:13 Hebrew They

24 And they said to Joshua, “Truly (A)the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land (B)melt away because of us.”

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