Psalm 34:11-22

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¹¹Come, my children, listen^(A) to me;
    I will teach you^(B) the fear of the Lord.^(C)
¹²Whoever of you loves life^(D)
    and desires to see many good days,
¹³keep your tongue^(E) from evil
    and your lips from telling lies.^(F)
¹⁴Turn from evil and do good;^(G)
    seek peace^(H) and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the Lord^(I) are on the righteous,^(J)
and his ears are attentive^(K) to their cry;
¹⁶but the face of the Lord is against^(L) those who do evil,^(M)
to blot out their name^(N) from the earth.

¹⁷The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears^(O) them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
¹⁸The Lord is close^(P) to the brokenhearted^(Q)
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

¹⁹The righteous person may have many troubles,^(R)
but the Lord delivers him from them all;^(S)
²⁰he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.^(T)

²¹Evil will slay the wicked;^(U)
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
²²The Lord will rescue^(V) his servants;
no one who takes refuge^(W) in him will be condemned.

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Revelation 14:12-20

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¹²This calls for patient endurance^(A) on the part of the people of God^(B) who keep his commands^(C) and remain faithful to Jesus.

¹³Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord^(D) from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit,^(E) “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress

¹⁴I looked, and there before me was a white cloud,^(F) and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man^[a]^(G) with a crown^(H) of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵Then another angel came out of the temple^(I) and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle^(J) and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest^(K) of the earth is ripe.” ¹⁶So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

¹⁷Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.^(L) ¹⁸Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar^(M) and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle^(N) and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” ¹⁹The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.^(O) ²⁰They were trampled in the winepress^(P) outside the city,^(Q) and blood^(R) flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.^[b]