Psalm 126

New King James Version

A Joyful Return to Zion

A Song of Ascents.

126 When ^(A)the Lord brought back ^[a]the captivity of Zion,
^(B)We were like those who dream.
²Then ^(C)our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the ^[b]nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
³The Lord has done great things for us,
And we are glad.

⁴Bring back our captivity, O Lord,
As the streams in the South.

⁵^(D)Those who sow in tears
Shall reap in joy.
⁶He who continually goes ^[c]forth weeping,
Bearing ^[d]seed for sowing,
Shall doubtless come again ^[e]with ^(E)rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with him.

Footnotes

Psalm 126:1 Those of the captivity
Psalm 126:2 Gentiles
Psalm 126:6 to and fro
Psalm 126:6 Lit. a bag of seed for sowing
Psalm 126:6 with shouts of joy

Obadiah

New King James Version

The Coming Judgment on Edom

¹The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord God ^(A)concerning Edom
^(B)(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

²“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
³The ^(C)pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
^(D)You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
⁴^(E)Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you ^(F)set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.

⁵“If ^(G)thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
^(H)Would they not have left some gleanings?

⁶“Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
⁷All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
^(I)The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a ^[a]trap for you.
^(J)No^[b] one is aware of it.

⁸“Will^(K) I not in that day,” says the Lord,
“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
⁹Then your ^(L)mighty men, O ^(M)Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.

Edom Mistreated His Brother

¹⁰“For ^(N)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And ^(O)you shall be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that you ^(P)stood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And ^(Q)cast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.

¹²“But you should not have ^(R)gazed^[c] on the day of your brother
^[d]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have ^(S)rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
¹³You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have ^[e]gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
¹⁴You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have ^[f]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.

¹⁵“For^(T) the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
^(U)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your ^[g]reprisal shall return upon your own head.
¹⁶^(V)For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.

Israel’s Final Triumph

¹⁷“But on Mount Zion there ^(W)shall be ^[h]deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
¹⁸The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph ^(X)a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹The ^[i]South ^(Y)shall possess the mountains of Esau,
^(Z)And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
²⁰And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As ^(AA)far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
^(AB)Shall possess the cities of the ^[j]South.
²¹Then ^(AC)saviors^[k] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the ^(AD)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

Footnotes

Obadiah 1:7 Or wound or plot
Obadiah 1:7 Or There is no understanding in him
Obadiah 1:12 Gloated over
Obadiah 1:12 Lit. On the day he became a foreigner
Obadiah 1:13 Gloated over
Obadiah 1:14 Handed over to the enemy
Obadiah 1:15 Or reward
Obadiah 1:17 Or salvation
Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
Obadiah 1:21 deliverers

Jonah 1

New King James Version

Jonah’s Disobedience

1 Now the word of the Lord came to ^(A)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ²“Arise, go to ^(B)Nineveh, that ^(C)great city, and cry out against it; for ^(D)their wickedness has come up before Me.” ³But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to ^(E)Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to ^(F)Tarshish ^(G)from the presence of the Lord.

The Storm at Sea

⁴But ^(H)the Lord ^[a]sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.

⁵Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten ^[b]the load. But Jonah had gone down ^(I)into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.

⁶So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, ^(J)call on your God; ^(K)perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

⁷And they said to one another, “Come, let us ^(L)cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. ⁸Then they said to him, ^(M)“Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”

⁹So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear ^[c]the Lord, the God of heaven, ^(N)who made the sea and the dry land.”

Jonah Thrown into the Sea

¹⁰Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. ¹¹Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous.

¹²And he said to them, ^(O)“Pick me up and ^[d]throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.”

¹³Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, ^(P)but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them. ¹⁴Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, “We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and ^(Q)do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, ^(R)have done as it pleased You.” ¹⁵So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, ^(S)and the sea ceased from its raging. ¹⁶Then the men ^(T)feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.