Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)Lilies. A Testimony. Of ^(B)Asaph, a Psalm.

The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

7 The word of the Lord came to me: ² “And you, ^(A)O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ^(B)An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.^{[a] 3} Now ^(C)the end is upon you, and ^(D)I will send my anger upon you; ^(E)I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^4 (F)And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but ^(G)I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^(H)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: Disaster ^(I)after disaster!^[b] Behold, it comes. ^6 (J)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ^7 (K)Your doom^[c] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. ^(L)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not ^(M)of joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸ Now I will soon ^(N)pour out my wrath upon you, and ^(O)spend my anger against you, ^(P)and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^9 (Q)And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. ^(R)Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

^10 (S)“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! ^(T)Your doom has come; ^(U)the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. ^11 (V)Violence has grown up into ^(W)a rod of wickedness. ^(X)None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.^{[d] 12 (Y)}The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not ^(Z)the buyer rejoice, nor ^(AA)the seller mourn, ^(AB)for wrath is upon all their multitude.^{[e] 13} For ^(AC)the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. ^(AD)For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.^[f]

¹⁴ “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, ^(AE)for my wrath is upon all their multitude. ^15 (AF)The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. ^(AG)He who is in the field dies by the sword, ^(AH)and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. ^16 (AI)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^(AJ)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. ^17 (AK)All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. ^18 (AL)They put on sackcloth, and ^(AM)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and ^(AN)baldness on all their heads. ¹⁹ They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. ^(AO)Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. ^(AP)For it was ^(AQ)the stumbling block of their iniquity. ^20 (AR)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(AS)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(AT)I make it an unclean thing to them. ²¹ And I will give it into the hands of ^(AU)foreigners for prey, ^(AV)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and ^(AW)they shall profane it. ²² I will turn my face from them, and ^(AX)they shall profane my treasured^[g] place. Robbers shall enter ^(AY)and profane it.

^23 (AZ)“Forge a chain!^{[h] (BA)}For the land is full of bloody crimes ^(BB)and the city is full of violence. ²⁴ I will bring ^(BC)the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. ^(BD)I will put an end to the pride of the strong, ^(BE)and their holy places^[i] shall be profaned. ^25 (BF)When anguish comes, ^(BG)they will seek peace, but there shall be none. ^26 (BH)Disaster comes upon disaster; ^(BI)rumor follows rumor. ^(BJ)They seek a vision from the prophet, while ^(BK)the law^[j] perishes from the priest and ^(BL)counsel from the elders. ²⁷ The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way ^(BM)I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, ^(BN)and they shall know that I am the Lord.”

Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch

²⁶ Now ^(A)an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south^[a] to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. ²⁷ And he rose and went. And there was an ^(B)Ethiopian, a ^(C)eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, ^(D)who was in charge of all her treasure. ^(E)He had come to Jerusalem to worship ²⁸ and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” ³⁰ So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ³¹ And he said, ^(F)“How can I, unless someone ^(G)guides me?” And ^(H)he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. ³² Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:

³⁴ And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” ³⁵ Then Philip opened his mouth, and ^(K)beginning with this Scripture ^(L)he told him the good news about Jesus. ³⁶ And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! ^(M)What prevents me from being baptized?”^{[b] 38} And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, ^(N)the Spirit of the Lord ^(O)carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. ⁴⁰ But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.