1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. ♦︎
Corrupt are they, and abominable in their wickedness;
there is no one that does good.
2 God has looked down from heaven upon the children of earth, ♦︎
to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks after God.
3 They are all gone out of the way;
all alike have become corrupt; ♦︎
there is no one that does good, no not one.
4 Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, ♦︎
who eat up my people as if they ate bread,
and do not call upon God?
5 There shall they be in great fear,
such fear as never was; ♦︎
for God will scatter the bones of the ungodly.
6 They will be put to shame, ♦︎
because God has rejected them.
7 O that Israels salvation would come out of Zion! ♦︎
When God restores the fortunes of his people
then will Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
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10 The word of the Lord came to Samuel: 11I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not carried out my commands. Samuel was angry; and he cried out to the Lord all night. 12Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, and Samuel was told, Saul went to Carmel, where he set up a monument for himself, and on returning he passed on down to Gilgal. 13When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, May you be blessed by the Lord; I have carried out the command of the Lord. 14But Samuel said, What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears, and the lowing of cattle that I hear? 15Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; but the rest we have utterly destroyed. 16Then Samuel said to Saul, Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night. He replied, Speak.
17 Samuel said, Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
18And the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
19Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?
20Saul said to Samuel, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21But from the spoil the people took sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
22And Samuel said,
Has the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices,
as in obedience to the voice of the Lord?
Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is no less a sin than divination,
and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has also rejected you from being king.
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22 I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25Its gates will never be shut by dayand there will be no night there. 26People will bring into it the glory and the honour of the nations. 27But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practises abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lambs book of life.
22Then the angel* showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life* with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants* will worship him; 4they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.
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