14 Sing, Daughter Zion;(A)
    shout aloud,(B) Israel!
Be glad and rejoice(C) with all your heart,
    Daughter Jerusalem!
15 The Lord has taken away your punishment,
    he has turned back your enemy.
The Lord, the King of Israel, is with you;(D)
    never again will you fear(E) any harm.(F)
16 On that day
    they will say to Jerusalem,
“Do not fear, Zion;
    do not let your hands hang limp.(G)
17 The Lord your God is with you,
    the Mighty Warrior who saves.(H)
He will take great delight(I) in you;
    in his love he will no longer rebuke you,(J)
    but will rejoice over you with singing.”(K)

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Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;(A)
    you are the one Israel praises.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:3 Or Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel

19 Then some Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood up and praised the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

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Shout for joy(A) to the Lord, all the earth,
    burst into jubilant song with music;
make music to the Lord with the harp,(B)
    with the harp and the sound of singing,(C)
with trumpets(D) and the blast of the ram’s horn(E)
    shout for joy(F) before the Lord, the King.(G)

Let the sea(H) resound, and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it.(I)
Let the rivers clap their hands,(J)
    let the mountains(K) sing together for joy;
let them sing before the Lord,
    for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
    and the peoples with equity.(L)

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Psalm 150

Praise the Lord.[a](A)

Praise God in his sanctuary;(B)
    praise him in his mighty heavens.(C)
Praise him for his acts of power;(D)
    praise him for his surpassing greatness.(E)
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,(F)
    praise him with the harp and lyre,(G)
praise him with timbrel and dancing,(H)
    praise him with the strings(I) and pipe,(J)
praise him with the clash of cymbals,(K)
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything(L) that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 150:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 6

Present Suffering and Future Glory

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.(A)

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17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.(A)

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The weapons we fight with(A) are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power(B) to demolish strongholds.(C) We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,(D) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient(E) to Christ.

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