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12  Happy the nation whose God is the Lord ♦︎
   and the people he has chosen for his own.
13  The Lord looks down from heaven ♦︎
   and beholds all the children of earth.
14  From where he sits enthroned he turns his gaze ♦︎
   on all who dwell on the earth.
15  He fashions all the hearts of them ♦︎
   and understands all their works.
16  No king is saved by the might of his host; ♦︎
   no warrior delivered by his great strength.
17  A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; ♦︎
   for all its strength it cannot save.
18  Behold, the eye of the Lord
      is upon those who fear him, ♦︎
   on those who wait in hope for his steadfast love,
19  To deliver their soul from death ♦︎
   and to feed them in time of famine.
20  Our soul waits longingly for the Lord; ♦︎
   he is our help and our shield.
21  Indeed, our heart rejoices in him; ♦︎
   in his holy name have we put our trust.
22  Let your loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, ♦︎
   as we have set our hope on you.

37‘At this also my heart trembles,
   and leaps out of its place.
² Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice
   and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
³ Under the whole heaven he lets it loose,
   and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
⁴ After it his voice roars;
   he thunders with his majestic voice
   and he does not restrain the lightnings^* when his voice is heard.
⁵ God thunders wondrously with his voice;
   he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
⁶ For to the snow he says, “Fall on the earth”;
   and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,
⁷ serves as a sign on everyone’s hand,
   so that all whom he has made may know it.^*
8 Then the animals go into their lairs
   and remain in their dens.
⁹ From its chamber comes the whirlwind,
   and cold from the scattering winds.
¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is given,
   and the broad waters are frozen fast.
¹¹ He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
   the clouds scatter his lightning.
¹² They turn round and round by his guidance,
   to accomplish all that he commands them
   on the face of the habitable world.
¹³ Whether for correction, or for his land,
   or for love, he causes it to happen.

50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters,^* is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die,^* but we will all be changed, ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. ⁵⁴When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’
⁵⁵ ‘Where, O death, is your victory?
   Where, O death, is your sting?’
⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.