1 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; ♦︎
I will sing and give you praise.
2 Awake, my soul; awake, harp and lyre, ♦︎
that I may awaken the dawn.
3 I will give you thanks, O Lord, among the peoples; ♦︎
I will sing praise to you among the nations.
4 For your loving-kindness is as high as the heavens ♦︎
and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens ♦︎
and your glory over all the earth.
6 That your beloved may be delivered, ♦︎
save us by your right hand and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness: ♦︎
I will triumph and divide Shechem
and share out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; ♦︎
Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my sceptre.
9 Moab shall be my washpot,
over Edom will I cast my sandal, ♦︎
across Philistia will I shout in triumph.
10 Who will lead me into the strong city? ♦︎
Who will bring me into Edom?
11 Have you not cast us off, O God? ♦︎
Will you no longer go forth with our troops?
12 O grant us your help against the enemy, ♦︎
for earthly help is in vain.
13 Through God will we do great acts, ♦︎
for it is he that shall tread down our enemies.
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8When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. 3Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5and said to him, You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations. 6But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to govern us. Samuel prayed to the Lord, 7and the Lord said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8Just as they have done to me,* from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. 9Now then, listen to their voice; onlyyou shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.
10 So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11He said, These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; 12and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plough his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. 15He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. 16He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle* and donkeys, and put them to his work. 17He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.
19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, No! but we are determined to have a king over us, 20so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles. 21When Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22The Lord said to Samuel, Listen to their voice and set a king over them. Samuel then said to the people of Israel, Each of you return home.
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7 When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8and will come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, in order to gather them for battle; they are as numerous as the sands of the sea. 9They marched up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from heaven* and consumed them. 10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.
13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.
14Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
15and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
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