Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Hezekiah vs the Apostasy
2Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6 For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses. 7 And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
What a contrast between Hezekiah and so many Christians today. They would tell us that we are to be submissive to the king of Assyria. They would give some phony baloney spiritual reason why we should not rebel against the Assyrians and why we should not smote the Philistines. In modern terms they don't object to abortion, they don't object to the whole LGBTQ movement to seize control of schools, and they think that Christians should abandon the parts of the Bible that offend others.
2Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6 For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses. 7 And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
What a contrast between Hezekiah and so many Christians today. They would tell us that we are to be submissive to the king of Assyria. They would give some phony baloney spiritual reason why we should not rebel against the Assyrians and why we should not smote the Philistines. In modern terms they don't object to abortion, they don't object to the whole LGBTQ movement to seize control of schools, and they think that Christians should abandon the parts of the Bible that offend others.
Because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God.
2Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
We need to study history. If you bow the knee to the woke mob, if the righteous give way to the wicked, then the Lord will remove your lampstand out of its place.
2Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
We need to study history. If you bow the knee to the woke mob, if the righteous give way to the wicked, then the Lord will remove your lampstand out of its place.
Samson, Delilah and Jonah
So there was an interesting message I heard from David Voss concerning the Lord's word that this adulterous generation would only be given the sign of Jonah. I cannot confirm any of this to be true because I am not a historian concerning rabbinic tradition but I can relate an hour long message into five minutes and if you think you want to investigate further then that would be the point.
Samson depicts the priesthood becoming adulterous and mixing with Delilah. They are this powerful one like Samson, but if they are going to lose they want to bring everyone down with them. Contrast with David who left Jerusalem rather than have a war kill and destroy many.
So then when there is a famine Elijah goes to the woman of Zarephah (hope I spelled that correctly) during a famine. Jesus asks "were there no widows in Israel?" The point was that a famine is not just for food but of the word of God. The priests had become adulterous and God had left them, hence the famine. So Elijah raises up the son of this woman. The teaching is that Jonah is that son. He is the priesthood that is giving the warning from God to the adulterous line of priests.
The reason Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh is because he had already preached coming doom to Jerusalem and they repented and God relented and then when the doom didn't happen they called him a false prophet. So Jonah's missionary journey depicts the church age -- which is the sign to the adulterous priesthood which depicts Judaism today.
Notice how his preaching begins in Jerusalem and then goes to the rest of the world.
So there was an interesting message I heard from David Voss concerning the Lord's word that this adulterous generation would only be given the sign of Jonah. I cannot confirm any of this to be true because I am not a historian concerning rabbinic tradition but I can relate an hour long message into five minutes and if you think you want to investigate further then that would be the point.
Samson depicts the priesthood becoming adulterous and mixing with Delilah. They are this powerful one like Samson, but if they are going to lose they want to bring everyone down with them. Contrast with David who left Jerusalem rather than have a war kill and destroy many.
So then when there is a famine Elijah goes to the woman of Zarephah (hope I spelled that correctly) during a famine. Jesus asks "were there no widows in Israel?" The point was that a famine is not just for food but of the word of God. The priests had become adulterous and God had left them, hence the famine. So Elijah raises up the son of this woman. The teaching is that Jonah is that son. He is the priesthood that is giving the warning from God to the adulterous line of priests.
The reason Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh is because he had already preached coming doom to Jerusalem and they repented and God relented and then when the doom didn't happen they called him a false prophet. So Jonah's missionary journey depicts the church age -- which is the sign to the adulterous priesthood which depicts Judaism today.
Notice how his preaching begins in Jerusalem and then goes to the rest of the world.
Jeremiah 25:4-17 they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad
Jeremiah 25: 4 And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear), 5 saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore; 6 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
This is referring to the apostasy. During the last seventy years the US has been the major superpower on earth and during this time we became arrogant and left God and you can see it in all that we do and say. You see it in our schools, in our media, in our TV and movies. You hear it in denominational churches saying the Bible is out of date and we don't need to heed it.
8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
The US is the Great Babylon, we have discussed this in great detail. We are the only nation with many deep water ports, we are the nation that distributed the word of God to the rest of the world (cup of fine gold) but in that cup made the nations drink a befuddling wine of Hollywood, corporate greed, and CIA criminality. The prophecies are clear, the judgement on Babylon comes in one hour and it comes from the nation from the north. If Russia were to attack us it would be with ICBM's that come over the North Pole.
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
After WWII the world served the US. WWII ended March 20, 1952 with a signing of a peace treaty with Japan. According to this the nations of the world needed to serve Babylon (the US) for 70 years. That is over as of the end of last month. On March 25th Russia put the Ruble on the gold standard, according to the Hebrew calendar this was a complete 70 years to the day.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
This is the judgement against the US. The 70 years are accomplished, the world despises the US, and the US (Great Babylon) will be judged when their currency collapses. Chaldeans refer to elite warriors. The US is both the Great Babylon (both religious and commercial) and also the land of the Chaldeans (great warriors).
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
There are some terrible deeds of the US and of the CIA that will be recompensed. The most notable of which is this pandemic designed in a bioweapons lab and lied about by Fauci with the sorcerers attempting to make merchandise of the rest of the world.
15 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at Jehovah’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
They were forced to "drink" this vaccine, they are reeling to and fro as a result and as they wake up to what has happened they are now mad.
Jeremiah 25: 4 And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear), 5 saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore; 6 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
This is referring to the apostasy. During the last seventy years the US has been the major superpower on earth and during this time we became arrogant and left God and you can see it in all that we do and say. You see it in our schools, in our media, in our TV and movies. You hear it in denominational churches saying the Bible is out of date and we don't need to heed it.
8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
The US is the Great Babylon, we have discussed this in great detail. We are the only nation with many deep water ports, we are the nation that distributed the word of God to the rest of the world (cup of fine gold) but in that cup made the nations drink a befuddling wine of Hollywood, corporate greed, and CIA criminality. The prophecies are clear, the judgement on Babylon comes in one hour and it comes from the nation from the north. If Russia were to attack us it would be with ICBM's that come over the North Pole.
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
After WWII the world served the US. WWII ended March 20, 1952 with a signing of a peace treaty with Japan. According to this the nations of the world needed to serve Babylon (the US) for 70 years. That is over as of the end of last month. On March 25th Russia put the Ruble on the gold standard, according to the Hebrew calendar this was a complete 70 years to the day.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
This is the judgement against the US. The 70 years are accomplished, the world despises the US, and the US (Great Babylon) will be judged when their currency collapses. Chaldeans refer to elite warriors. The US is both the Great Babylon (both religious and commercial) and also the land of the Chaldeans (great warriors).
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
There are some terrible deeds of the US and of the CIA that will be recompensed. The most notable of which is this pandemic designed in a bioweapons lab and lied about by Fauci with the sorcerers attempting to make merchandise of the rest of the world.
15 For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at Jehovah’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
They were forced to "drink" this vaccine, they are reeling to and fro as a result and as they wake up to what has happened they are now mad.
PROPHECY--RATS!!!
Jeremiah 7:8-11 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
My son, hear and write My words this day, for this day is set apart. THIS DAY I HAVE BEGUN TO TEAR DOWN THE CHURCH THAT HAS ALLOWED THE RATS IN. The false teaching and preaching has INFESTED itself in the pulpits across this nation and around the world. The WITCHCRAFT that is present has My children in a TRANCE, and they are blind to the WICKEDNESS the RATS have brought in. My Word is twisted and tainted to allow SIN TO MULTIPLY just as RATS MULTIPLY QUICKLY and spread filth. I AM GOING TO SEND MY EXTERMINATOR TO SHAKE THE RATS OUT OF MY HOUSE! This SHAKING will be hard and fast - to RID My house of sin and wickedness, and many RATS will fall out!
My son, the RATS have come into this nation across both the north and south borders. These people have no soul. They only come to DEVOUR the food and leave DEATH and REFUSE behind. Many of these INVADERS have only one thought on their mind - to STEAL, KILL, and DESTROY ALL that stand in their way. When the ENTITLEMENTS END, they will become ENRAGED and GO OUT LOOKING for anything to take - JUST AS THE RATS DO when their food source is gone.
My son, very TURBULENT TIMES are now in the land, and they will get MUCH WORSE. WAR like this nation has never seen is on the doorstep. FOOD SUPPLIES will dry up as the the RATS WILL INVADE the stores and take it all. The MONEY in your nation will continue to lose value as the government GIVES IT AWAY to the INVADERS and to the ENEMY. WHEN THE DARKNESS CROSSES THE LAND - THE REAL DARKNESS WILL BEGIN. THE WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES WILL MOVE TO THE EARTH. THE MAN OF SIN WILL BE MOVED INTO POSITION - WATCH THE YOUNG PRINCE. THOSE WITH EARS TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE - WILL KNOW.
My son, CONTINUE TO SHOUT REPENT! TO THE LOST SHEEP! MANY WILL HEAR THE SHOUT AND COME HOME. SHOUT REPENT! TO MY SLEEPING BODY! TURN FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS! I WILL BURN THE HOUSES THE RATS RESIDE IN! MY FIRE OF JUDGMENT WILL COME DOWN HARD AND FAST LIKE A RAT TRAP - AND I WILL BRING MY CHILDREN BACK TO HOLINESS! THEIR BLOODY KNEES WILL BE THE MARK OF REPENTANCE. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THE RATS! NOW MY HAND WILL MOVE AND DRIVE THEM OUT! I love you, My children, and I AM coming very soon. IS YOUR HOUSE FREE OF RATS (SIN)???
Amen. Lord Jesus
Jeremiah 7:8-11 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
My son, hear and write My words this day, for this day is set apart. THIS DAY I HAVE BEGUN TO TEAR DOWN THE CHURCH THAT HAS ALLOWED THE RATS IN. The false teaching and preaching has INFESTED itself in the pulpits across this nation and around the world. The WITCHCRAFT that is present has My children in a TRANCE, and they are blind to the WICKEDNESS the RATS have brought in. My Word is twisted and tainted to allow SIN TO MULTIPLY just as RATS MULTIPLY QUICKLY and spread filth. I AM GOING TO SEND MY EXTERMINATOR TO SHAKE THE RATS OUT OF MY HOUSE! This SHAKING will be hard and fast - to RID My house of sin and wickedness, and many RATS will fall out!
My son, the RATS have come into this nation across both the north and south borders. These people have no soul. They only come to DEVOUR the food and leave DEATH and REFUSE behind. Many of these INVADERS have only one thought on their mind - to STEAL, KILL, and DESTROY ALL that stand in their way. When the ENTITLEMENTS END, they will become ENRAGED and GO OUT LOOKING for anything to take - JUST AS THE RATS DO when their food source is gone.
My son, very TURBULENT TIMES are now in the land, and they will get MUCH WORSE. WAR like this nation has never seen is on the doorstep. FOOD SUPPLIES will dry up as the the RATS WILL INVADE the stores and take it all. The MONEY in your nation will continue to lose value as the government GIVES IT AWAY to the INVADERS and to the ENEMY. WHEN THE DARKNESS CROSSES THE LAND - THE REAL DARKNESS WILL BEGIN. THE WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES WILL MOVE TO THE EARTH. THE MAN OF SIN WILL BE MOVED INTO POSITION - WATCH THE YOUNG PRINCE. THOSE WITH EARS TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE - WILL KNOW.
My son, CONTINUE TO SHOUT REPENT! TO THE LOST SHEEP! MANY WILL HEAR THE SHOUT AND COME HOME. SHOUT REPENT! TO MY SLEEPING BODY! TURN FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS! I WILL BURN THE HOUSES THE RATS RESIDE IN! MY FIRE OF JUDGMENT WILL COME DOWN HARD AND FAST LIKE A RAT TRAP - AND I WILL BRING MY CHILDREN BACK TO HOLINESS! THEIR BLOODY KNEES WILL BE THE MARK OF REPENTANCE. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THE RATS! NOW MY HAND WILL MOVE AND DRIVE THEM OUT! I love you, My children, and I AM coming very soon. IS YOUR HOUSE FREE OF RATS (SIN)???
Amen. Lord Jesus
Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth
Deuteronomy 32:1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
3 I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
5 They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,[a]
who made you and formed you?
7 Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b]
9 For the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10 In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
12 The Lord alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
13 He made him ride on the heights of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,
and with oil from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan
and the finest kernels of wheat.
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
15 Jeshurun[c] grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Savior.
16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
21 They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,
and their clusters with bitterness.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?
35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.”
36 The Lord will vindicate his people
and relent concerning his servants
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free.[d]
37 He will say: “Now where are their gods,
the rock they took refuge in,
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up to help you!
Let them give you shelter!
39 “See now that I myself am he!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
40 I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear:
As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,[e][f]
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
Deuteronomy 32:1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
3 I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
5 They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,[a]
who made you and formed you?
7 Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b]
9 For the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10 In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
12 The Lord alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
13 He made him ride on the heights of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,
and with oil from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan
and the finest kernels of wheat.
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
15 Jeshurun[c] grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Savior.
16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
21 They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,
and their clusters with bitterness.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?
35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.”
36 The Lord will vindicate his people
and relent concerning his servants
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free.[d]
37 He will say: “Now where are their gods,
the rock they took refuge in,
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up to help you!
Let them give you shelter!
39 “See now that I myself am he!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
40 I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear:
As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people,[e][f]
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.