Trust in the LORD. Have faith, do not despair. Trust in the LORD.

Be patient and wait for the LORD to act; don't be worried about those who prosper or those who succeed in their evil plans.

Put your hope in the LORD and obey his commands; he will honor you by giving you the land, and you will see the wicked driven out.

I wait patiently for God to save me; I depend on him alone.

I depend on God alone; I put my hope in him.

As a servant depends on his master, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O LORD our God, until you have mercy on us.

I wait eagerly for the LORD's help, and in his word I trust.

I wait for the Lord more eagerly than sentries wait for the dawn--- than sentries wait for the dawn.

Don't take it on yourself to repay a wrong. Trust the LORD and he will make it right.

And yet the LORD is waiting to be merciful to you. He is ready to take pity on you because he always does what is right. Happy are those who put their trust in the LORD.

The LORD is good to everyone who trusts in him,

So it is best for us to wait in patience---to wait for him to save us---

So now, descendants of Jacob, trust in your God and return to him. Be loyal and just, and wait patiently for your God to act.

But I will watch for the LORD; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.

Be patient, then, my friends, until the Lord comes. See how patient farmers are as they wait for their land to produce precious crops. They wait patiently for the autumn and spring rains.

You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord's coming is near.

"But now I will come," says the LORD, "because the needy are oppressed and the persecuted groan in pain. I will give them the security they long for."

At last the Lord woke up as though from sleep; he was like a strong man excited by wine.

He drove his enemies back in lasting and shameful defeat.

The LORD goes out to fight like a warrior; he is ready and eager for battle. He gives a war cry, a battle shout; he shows his power against his enemies.

God says, "For a long time I kept silent; I did not answer my people. But now the time to act has come; I cry out like a woman in labor.

He is astonished to see that there is no one to help the oppressed. So he will use his own power to rescue them and to win the victory.

He will punish his enemies according to what they have done, even those who live in distant lands.

So the Sovereign LORD sent me to tell Gog what he was saying to him: "Now while my people Israel live in security, you will set out

You will attack my people Israel like a storm moving across the land. When the time comes, I will send you to invade my land in order to show the nations who I am, to show my holiness by what I do through you.

The Sovereign LORD says, "On the day when Gog invades Israel, I will become furious.

Every fish and bird, every animal large and small, and every human being on the face of the earth will tremble for fear of me. Mountains will fall, cliffs will crumble, and every wall will collapse.

I will punish him with disease and bloodshed. Torrents of rain and hail, together with fire and sulfur, will pour down on him and his army and on the many nations that are on his side.

I will gather all the nations and bring them to the Valley of Judgment. There I will judge them for all they have done to my people. They have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided Israel, my land.

"Make this announcement among the nations: 'Prepare for war; call your warriors; gather all your soldiers and march!

Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather in the valley.' " Send down, O LORD, your army to attack them!

They are very wicked; cut them down like grain at harvest time; crush them as grapes are crushed in a full wine press until the wine runs over."

The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.

Many nations have gathered to attack you. They say, "Jerusalem must be destroyed! We will see this city in ruins!"

The LORD says, "People of Jerusalem, go and punish your enemies! I will make you as strong as a bull with iron horns and bronze hoofs. You will crush many nations, and the wealth they got by violence you will present to me, the Lord of the whole world."

The LORD will bring all the nations together to make war on Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people will go into exile, but the rest of them will not be taken away from the city.

Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past.

and the people of all the nations will be gathered before him. Then he will divide them into two groups, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

They are the spirits of demons that perform miracles. These three spirits go out to all the kings of the world, to bring them together for the battle on the great Day of Almighty God.

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair: "Come and gather together for God's great feast!

Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against the one who was riding the horse and against his army.

On the day when the LORD shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end---a sudden end---to everyone who lives on earth.

With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.

My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.

Close your heart to every love but mine; hold no one in your arms but me. Love is as powerful as death; passion is as strong as death itself. It bursts into flame and burns like a raging fire.

"I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken out in the heat of my anger against the surrounding nations, and especially against Edom. With glee and contempt they captured my land and took possession of its pastures.

"So prophesy to the land of Israel; tell the mountains, hills, brooks, and valleys what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying in jealous anger because of the way the nations have insulted and humiliated them.

I declare in the heat of my anger that on that day there will be a severe earthquake in the land of Israel.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.