Psalm 9:19
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19 Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;
let the nations be judged before you.(A)
Psalm 3:7
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7 Rise up, O Lord!
Deliver me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
Psalm 74:22-23
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22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.(A)
23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.(B)
Psalm 44:26
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26 Rise up, come to our help.
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.(A)
Psalm 44:23
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23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(A)
Psalm 10:12
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12 Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed.(A)
Psalm 7:6
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6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God;[a] you have appointed a judgment.(A)
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- 7.6 Or awake for me
Zephaniah 3:8
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Punishment and Conversion of the Nations
8 Therefore wait for me, says the Lord,
for the day when I arise as a witness.
For my decision is to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
all the heat of my anger,
for in the fire of my passion
all the earth shall be consumed.(A)
Isaiah 51:9
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9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?(A)
Psalm 149:7
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7 to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
Psalm 79:6
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6 Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you
and on the kingdoms
that do not call on your name.(A)
Revelation 19:15
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15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule[a] them with a scepter of iron; he will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.(A)
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- 19.15 Or will shepherd
Zechariah 14:18
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18 And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, there will be no rain for them; there will be the plague that the Lord inflicts on the nations that do not go up to keep the Festival of Booths.[a](A)
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- 14.18 Or Tabernacles
Micah 5:15
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15 And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance
on the nations that did not obey.(A)
Joel 3:12
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12 Let the nations rouse themselves
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit to judge
all the neighboring nations.(A)
Jeremiah 10:25
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25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you
and on the peoples that do not call on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob;
they have devoured him and consumed him
and have laid waste his habitation.(A)
Isaiah 42:13-14
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13 The Lord goes forth like a soldier;
like a warrior he stirs up his fury;
he cries out; he shouts aloud;
he shows himself mighty against his foes.(A)
14 For a long time I have held my peace;
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.(B)
Psalm 80:2
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2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh.
Stir up your might,
and come to save us!(A)
Psalm 76:8-9
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8 From the heavens you uttered judgment;
the earth feared and was still(A)
9 when God rose up to establish judgment,
to save all the oppressed of the earth. Selah(B)
Psalm 68:1-2
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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)
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
as wax melts before the fire,
let the wicked perish before God.(B)
Psalm 2:1-3
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Psalm 2
God’s Promise to His Anointed
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
2 Chronicles 14:11
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11 Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is no difference for you between helping the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let no mortal prevail against you.”(A)
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1 Samuel 2:9
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9 He will guard the feet of his faithful ones,
but the wicked will perish in darkness,
for not by might does one prevail.(A)
Genesis 32:28
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28 Then the man[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[b] for you have striven with God and with humans[c] and have prevailed.”(A)
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