Psalm 89:10
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10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.(A)
Psalm 144:6
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6 Make the lightning flash and scatter them;
send out your arrows and rout them.(A)
Isaiah 24:1
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.(A)
Psalm 105:27-45
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27 They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.(A)
28 He sent darkness and made the land dark;
they rebelled[a] against his words.(B)
29 He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.(C)
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.(D)
31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
and gnats throughout their country.(E)
32 He gave them hail for rain
and lightning that flashed through their land.(F)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
and young locusts without number;(G)
35 they devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first issue of all their strength.(H)
37 Then he brought Israel[b] out with silver and gold,
and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.(I)
38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
for dread of them had fallen upon it.(J)
39 He spread a cloud for a covering
and fire to give light by night.(K)
40 They asked, and he brought quails
and gave them food from heaven in abundance.(L)
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.(M)
42 For he remembered his holy promise
and Abraham, his servant.(N)
43 So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,(O)
45 that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!(P)
Psalm 87:4
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4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
Philistia, too, and Tyre, with Cush—
“This one was born there,” they say.
Psalm 78:43-72
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43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.(A)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.(B)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.(C)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.(D)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.(E)
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(F)
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.(G)
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.(H)
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.(I)
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(J)
56 Yet they tested the Most High God
and rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees(K)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
they twisted like a treacherous bow.(L)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(M)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(N)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.(O)
62 He gave his people to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.(P)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.(Q)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.(R)
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.(S)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.(T)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(U)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(V)
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(W)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(X)
72 With upright heart he tended them
and guided them with skillful hand.(Y)
Psalm 68:30
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30 Rebuke the wild animals that live among the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample[a] under foot those who lust after tribute;
scatter the peoples who delight in war.[b](A)
Psalm 68:1
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Psalm 68
Praise and Thanksgiving
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.
1 Let God rise up; let his enemies be scattered;
let those who hate him flee before him.(A)
Psalm 59:11
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11 Do not kill them, or my people may forget;
make them totter by your power and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.(A)
Deuteronomy 4:34
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34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by terrifying displays of power, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?(A)
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Exodus 7:1-15
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7 The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.(A) 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.(B) 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.(C) 4 When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.(D) 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”(E) 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.(F) 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(G)
Aaron’s Miraculous Rod
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”(H) 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the Lord had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.(I) 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.(J) 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes, but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.(K)
The First Plague: Water Turned to Blood
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.(L) 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; stand by at the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.(M)
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Exodus 3:19-20
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19 I know, however, that the king of Egypt will not let you go except by a mighty hand.(A) 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will perform in it; after that he will let you go.(B)
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