the LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.
You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.
I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.
He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"
Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.
Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.
For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, the LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A contemplation by Asaph.
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.
the LORD God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
the LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.
Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, the LORD.
Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
They break your people in pieces, the LORD, and afflict your heritage.
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
For the LORD won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Say among the nations, "the LORD reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
before the LORD; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.
Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name. A Psalm.
Let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
the LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
the LORD is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.
when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Remember me, the LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
They didn't destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,
Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! BOOK V
Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.
I will give thanks to you, the LORD, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.
He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;
I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people.
I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people,
Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.
For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.
To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.
Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD. A praise psalm by David.
kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth;
He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,
and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him."
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
They said to her, "No, but we will return with you to your people."
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."
Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
I thought to disclose it to you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it."
Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,
"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?" says the LORD of Armies.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says the LORD of Armies.
"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the LORD."
the LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.
I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.
I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'the LORD is my God.'"
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Therefore as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of the LORD, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.
At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.
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