Why do the nations plan rebellion? Why do people make their useless plots?

"Let us free ourselves from their rule," they say; "let us throw off their control."

Then he warns them in anger and terrifies them with his fury.

Rise in your anger, O LORD! Stand up against the fury of my enemies; rouse yourself and help me! Justice is what you demand,

How can the wicked despise God and say to themselves, "He will not punish me"?

But you do see; you take notice of trouble and suffering and are always ready to help. The helpless commit themselves to you; you have always helped the needy.

Nations are terrified, kingdoms are shaken; God thunders, and the earth dissolves.

The ocean depths raise their voice, O LORD; they raise their voice and roar.

The LORD rules supreme in heaven, greater than the roar of the ocean, more powerful than the waves of the sea.

They were filled with rage and began to discuss among themselves what they could do to Jesus.

"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.

"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!

You calm the roar of the seas and the noise of the waves; you calm the uproar of the peoples.

Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple; they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.

Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies, the continuous noise made by your foes.

Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling.

Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?

Don't be stupid like a horse or a mule, which must be controlled with a bit and bridle to make it submit."

I am going to put a hook through your jaw and make the fish in your river stick fast to you. Then I will pull you up out of the Nile, with all the fish sticking to you.

I will turn him around, put hooks in his jaws, and drag him and all his troops away. His army, with its horses and uniformed riders, is enormous, and every soldier carries a shield and is armed with a sword.

As the Sovereign LORD is holy, he has promised, "The days will come when they will drag you away with hooks; every one of you will be like a fish on a hook.

He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.

One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.