Tell the Coming Generation

A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)Asaph.

Joshua Renews the Covenant

³⁰ At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, ^(A)on Mount Ebal, ³¹ just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. ³² And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on ^(B)the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. ³³ And all Israel, ^(C)sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests ^(D)who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, ^(E)just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. ³⁴ And afterward ^(F)he read all the words of the law, ^(G)the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. ³⁵ There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, ^(H)and the women, and the little ones, and ^(I)the sojourners who lived^[a] among them.

¹³ Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from ^(A)the four horns of the golden altar before God, ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release ^(B)the four angels who are bound at ^(C)the great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵ So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released ^(D)to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶ The number of ^(E)mounted troops was ^(F)twice ten thousand times ten thousand; ^(G)I heard their number. ¹⁷ And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire^[a] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were ^(H)like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. ¹⁸ By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

²⁰ The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(I)did not repent of ^(J)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping ^(K)demons ^(L)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders or their ^(M)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.