The Glory of God
in Genesis
The Lord chose us before the foundation of the world
to be 'holy and without blame,' in His Presence,
in love. Ephesians 1:4
Then:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
He did it by just speaking. ‘God said, Light!
and there was light. Genesis 1
Creation is His infinitely stunning gift
to His beloved ones
that He made in His image.
Genesis 1:27
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Enoch walked with God.
Noah walked with God. Genesis 5:22,6:9
When man goes the wrong way,
God waits until the last minute for them
to return to Him, ‘Not willing that any perish.’
2 Peter 3:9
Like the Amorites, ‘for their iniquity is not yet full.’
Genesis 15:16
Great in counsel, and mighty in work:
for Your eyes are open on all the ways
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of the sons of men:
to give each one
according to the fruit of his own doings.
Jeremiah 32:19
After 120 years of longsuffering and warnings, '
In the 600th year of Noah's life
all the fountains of the great deep broken up
and the windows of heaven were opened.
Rain was on the earth 40 days and nights.
All in which was the breath of life died.
All their evil was stopped.
Genesis 7:11-22
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God remembered Noah and every living thing
and brought them out to a beautiful fresh start,
free of evil, saying, ‘
Be fruitful, and multiply abundantly.
I set My rainbow in the cloud for the sign
promising that waters will never again
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:13-15
Ezekiel’s vision of God:
And above the space over their heads
was a sapphire throne
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where sat the fiery amber form of a man
flashing forth rainbows.
This was the Glory of the Lord.
Ezekiel 1:26-28
Centuries later
the Lord appeared to Abraham saying,
I will make of you a great nation
and I will bless you and make your name great;
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those that bless you,
and curse those that curse you:
and in you all families of the earth will be blessed.
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Seven promises from Almighty God
that are for everyone since,
God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34
He doesn’t play favorites but is pure, infinite love
and has given to us thousands of exceedingly great
and precious promises,
that by them we might be ‘partakers
of the divine nature.’
2 Peter 1:4
Not one thing failed of all the good
He promised:
all came to pass. Joshua 21:45
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Ask what you will
that your joy may be full,
Jesus promised in John 16:24
Raiding kings rampaged
across the land in Abraham’s day
attacking the cities and kidnapping Lot,
Abraham’s nephew.
Abraham armed his 318 servants,
and they chased after them
and recovered all the persons and goods.
Genesis 14
Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High God,
met Abraham on his return.
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He blessed him saying,
Blessed be Abraham of
the Most High God,
possessor of heaven and earth,
and blessed be God,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.
Genesis 14:18-20
Thanks be to God,
Who always causes us
to triumph in Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:14
For we don’t wrestle with flesh and blood,
but powers and rulers
of the darkness of this world,
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who came ‘to steal, kill, and destroy’
our view of God, our faith, love, joy, peace,
and our very life. John 10:10
The battle is the Lord's. 1 Samuel 17:47
Don’t fear, stand still
and see the deliverance of the Lord
that He will show you today.’ Exodus 14:13
I am persuaded, that not death,
or life, or angels, or any other thing can separate us
from the love of God,
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which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Roman 8:38, 39
After his victory, fearing retribution,
the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision, saying,
Don’t be afraid, Abraham: I am your shield,
and your exceeding great reward.
Genesis 15:1
The greatest person on earth as your best friend
can’t compare to the infinite Almighty God
being the one closest to you,
the one who loves you most.
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The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:8
Your reward will be great,
and you will be the children of the Highest.
Luke 6:35
Hagar was an Egyptian slave girl
that Sarah tried to have children through.
When Hagar became pregnant,
she despised her mistress and was sent away.
The Angel of the Lord found her
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by a fountain of water in the wilderness.
He listened to her and said, Return to your mistress.
Submit yourself under her hands.
I will multiply your seed, too many to count.
She called the name of the Lord,
You God see me.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place
beholding the evil and the good.
Proverbs 15:3
15
You God see me
The Glory of God
in Genesis ii
Nothing is too hard for God
The Lord told Abraham, I will return to you,
and Sarah will have a son.
Sarah laughed inside, being old, and said in her heart,
Will I have pleasure, my lord also being old?
The Lord asked Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh?
Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:10-18
What could be too hard for the One who created the universe?
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The One who always keeps His promises,
exceedingly abundantly above what we ask or can imagine.
Ephesians 3:20
Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son
when he was 100 years old,
naming him Isaac (laughter).
And Sarah said, God has made me laugh,
so all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:5, 6
With God nothing is impossible.
Luke 1:37
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God provides Himself, the Lamb:
Years later God tested Abraham, saying,
Take your son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering
on one of the mountains I will show you.
On the 3rd day Abraham saw the place far away.
He took the wood of the burnt offering
and laid it on his son;
and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife;
and they went together.
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Isaac said, See the fire and the wood:
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself
a Lamb for a burnt offering: Genesis 22:7, 8
Abraham built an altar and bound Isaac
and laid him on it and stretched out his hand to kill his son.
The Angel of the Lord called out of heaven,
Abraham! Don’t harm him!
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Abraham saw a ram caught in a thicket
and offered him up for a burnt offering
and called the name of that place Jehovah jireh,
which means, on the mount of the Lord it will be seen
(that God didn’t withhold His only Son).
He that didn’t spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all,
how will He not with Him
freely give us all things? Romans 8:32
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Abraham said to his most trusted servant,
Swear by the God of heaven
you will go to my homeland to get a bride for Isaac.
The Lord will send His angel before you.
Genesis 24
When the servant arrived in Ur of the Chaldees,
he had his camels kneel down by a well at evening,
and prayed,
Today, Let me see her,
the young lady who gives me a drink
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and waters my camels,
let her be the one you have designed for Isaac.
Before he finished speaking Rebekah came
out with her pitcher on her shoulder
and he asked her for a drink.
She gave him a drink
and he watched in awe
as she watered his 10 camels.
He told her who he was and gave her
a golden ring and two gold bracelets.
Then he bowed and worshipped,
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Blessed be the Lord God
of my master Abraham,
who hasn't forsaken His faithfulness
to my master.
The servant told Rebecca
and her family about Abraham,
his miracle child, Isaac,
and the Lord's great blessings on them.
He told them of his errand:
his promise to get a bride for Isaac.
They asked Rebekah if she would go
and she agreed,
seeing it was from the Lord.
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He gave the family many treasures
and left the next morning
with Rebekah and her nurse
for the long journey back.
Isaac came from the well of the
'Living One seeing me.'
When he went out to meditate
in the field in the evening,
he looked up and saw the camels coming.
When Rebekah looked up,
she saw Isaac and fell off her camel.
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Isaac brought her into his mother’s
tent, and Rebekah became his wife.
He loved her and was comforted
after his mother's death.
Blessed be God, the Father of mercies,
the God of all comfort,
Who comforts us in all our troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3, 4
And He tells us what will be:
Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife
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because she was barren, and Rebekah conceived.
When the children struggled within her she said,
Why am I like this?
And she went to ask the Lord.
The Lord said, Two nations are in your womb;
one will be stronger, and the older will serve the younger.
Esau, the older twin, became a skillful hunter and
Jacob was a complete (perfect) man, dwelling in tents.
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Jesus completes us and exchanged His perfect life
for our sinful one when we believed in Him.
Colossians 2:10
Esau came from the field fainting, and said to Jacob,
Feed me some of that red soup.
Jacob said, Sell me your birthright.
(Our birthright of being created in His image is:
He that overcomes will sit with Me
on My throne. Revelation 3:21)
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Esau said, Look!
I'm almost dead. What good this birthright to me?
Jacob said, Swear to me.
He swore to him and sold his birthright.
Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil soup.
He ate and got up and left.
Genesis 25:34
Those that overcome will inherit all things
and sit with Me on My throne.
Revelation 21:7
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Being rooted and grounded in love,
filled with all the fullness of God.’
Ephesians 3:17-19
On His Throne
The Glory of God
in Genesis iii
One night at sunset
When Isaac sent Jacob away
because Esau planned to kill him
for stealing his birthright and blessing,
Jacob stopped one night at sunset.
He dreamed and saw a stairway set on earth
leading into heaven with angels of God
ascending and descending on it.
The Lord stood above the stairway and said,
I will give you the land where you are sleeping.
Your offspring will spread out
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over the whole earth and in them
all the families of the earth will be blessed.
I Am with you and will guard you wherever
you go. I won't leave you.
When Jacob woke, he said,
How awesome is this place.
The Lord is here and I didn't know.
Surely this is the house of God,
this is the gate of heaven.
One night a Man wrestled with Jacob
until daybreak.
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When He saw that He didn't prevail,
He touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, disjointing it.
Jacob said, I won't let You go
unless You bless me.
The Lord said, you will no longer be called Jacob, cheater,
but Israel, prince: for as a prince
you have power with God and with men
and have prevailed.
Then Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel, saying, I have seen God
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face to face and my life is preserved.
Genesis 32:30
esus said, I give to them eternal life.
They will never perish,
neither can anyone pluck them
out of My hand. John 10:28
God reconciles:
Many years later,
on his return home,
Jacob feared for his life for Esau
was coming to meet with 400 men.
But Esau ran to Jacob,
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embraced him, and they wept.
Seeing the women and children, he asked,
Whose are these? Jacob said,
These are the children God has graciously given me.
Esau asked, What are these flocks and
herds you sent? Jacob said, To find
grace in your sight because God has dealt
graciously with me, and because I have all.
Genesis 33
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He that overcomes will inherit all things
and I will be His God and he/she will be
My sons/daughters.
Revelation 21:7
When Jacob's son, Joseph, was 17,
His father loved him most and made him a
beautiful coat.
Joseph had dreams that
showed he would rule over the family and
he told them the dreams.
His brothers plotted to kill him,
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but instead, sold him to traders going to Egypt.
Then they killed a goat,
put the blood on Joseph's beautiful coat,
and took it to Jacob.
Jacob said. Surely an evil beast has
devoured him. He tore his clothes and
mourned and refused to be comforted.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth,
for the Lord has comforted His people.
Isaiah 49:13
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In Egypt Joseph was bought by
Pharaoh's chief executioner.
But the Lord was with Joseph
and prospered everything he did,
so his owner made Joseph overseer of his whole estate.
One day, the master's wife said to Joseph,
Come, lie with me.
Joseph said, Your
husband has trusted me with everything he has.
How could I do this great sin against God?
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He continually refused her
until she became angry and falsely accused him.
So, the chief executioner put Joseph in prison.
But the Lord was with Joseph,
and gave him favor before the warden,
who put him over everything in the prison.
Genesis 39
Through God, Joseph interpreted dreams
of Pharaoh's two top officials
and later was taken before Pharaoh to interpret a dream:
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after which, Pharoah made Joseph prime
minister over all Egypt.
Promotion doesn't come from the east or the west,
but God is the judge:
He puts down one, and He sets up another.
Psalm 75:6, 7
God had shown through Joseph
that a famine was coming,
so he stored grain,
and Egypt had plenty when the famine hit.
All the world had to come to them for grain,
which saved their lives.
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In Egypt Joseph said to the brothers,
God sent me ahead to preserve your future generations.
(We are saved from hell to sit with the Lord
on the throne of the universe forever.)
Revelation 3:21
When Jacob was giving his last words to his sons,
he said, The Angel who redeemed me from all evil,
bless your sons and grow them into a multitude
in the midst of the earth.
Genesis 45-50
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Jacob's sons are the ones whose names
are forever written on the gates of the
eternal holy city; and through his son, Judah,
came the promised Savior of all.
Holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners and higher than the heavens.
Hebrews 7:26
Whom God, His Father, appointed heir of all things,
by whom also He made the worlds;
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Him being the brightness of His glory,
and the exact image of His person,
who holds up all things by the word of His power,
when He had,
by Himself,
purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Hebrews 1:1-3
Who, by one sacrifice from His eternal love,
Jeremiah 31:3,
perfected forever those that that believe.
Hebrews 10:14
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Perfected forever
Exodus
I Will Be with You
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In night visions, God promised Jacob,
Don’t fear to go down to Egypt,
for there I will make of you a great nation.
I will be with you and bring you again to this place. Genesis 46:3
Exodus shows God’s almighty, miraculous power to deliver all from everything mankind fell into by following evil.
A new king rose in Egypt who feared God’s people
and made their lives ‘bitter with hard work.’
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Pharaoh ordered the midwives to kill all their male babies at birth, but the midwives feared God and didn’t obey the king’s command. God blessed their generations for this, making them dynasties in His eternal kingdom. Exodus 1:21
A descendant of Levi had a son that they hid for 3 months. Then they made a basket to float him in the river.
The daughter of
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Pharaoh found him there crying and said, This is one of the Hebrew children. She called him Moses
and raised him in the palace as her own son.
When he was grown, Moses went out to see
his brother Israelites.
He fought with an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew, killed him, and hid him in the sand.
When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses
and Moses fled Egypt.
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He came to Midian. The priest of Midian had 7 daughters. Moses helped them water their flocks.
Then priest had Moses stay with him
and gave him his daughter Zipporah as his wife.
40 years passed
and cries of the Israelites
came up to God in heaven.
Moses was tending the flock by Mt. Horeb
when the Angel of the Lord appeared to him
in a flame of fire in a bush that burned
but wasn’t consumed.
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He said, Moses, Moses. Don’t come near. Take off your shoes for the place you stand is holy ground.
I have seen the affliction of My people.
I know their sorrows,
(as He sees us and knows our sorrows),
and I have come to deliver them a
nd bring them to a land flowing
with milk and honey.
Moses said, Who am I that you send me?
The Lord said, ‘I will be with you.’
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I will strike Egypt with all my wonders and after that Pharaoh will let you go.
Moses asked, What if your people don’t believe me? The Lord said, The shepherd’s rod you are holding, throw it on the ground. Moses did, and it became a serpent. Moses ran. The Lord said, Take it by the tail.
When He did, it became a rod again.
Moses said, O Lord, I’m not eloquent.
The Lord said, Didn’t I make man's mouth?
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Go, and I will be with your mouth
and teach you what to say.
When Moses stood before Pharaoh he said, The Lord God says, Let My people go
to hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord
that I should let the people go
When Pharaoh asked for a sign,
Moses threw his shepherd’s rod on the ground,
and it became a serpent.
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Pharaoh’s magicians did the same and Moses’s rod swallowed up their rods.
God turned the waters in Egypt to blood;
He filled the land with frogs
‘that you may know that there is none like the Lord.'
The dust was turned to lice.
Ashes from the furnace made boils,
terrors on the heart,
hail from heaven with fire that ran along the ground,
all trying to get these people who had enslaved and killed
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His people for 400 years to turn from all these empty things they worshipped, to the Living God, ‘
that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.’
Exodus 9:29
After ten devastating plagues ending with
the death of every firstborn,
600,000 men plus their wives and children left Egypt carrying with them precious treasures,
400 years back wages.
God led the people in a pillar of a cloud by day,
and fire by night, always with them.
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Pharaoh changed his mind again
and chased Israel with 600 chariots.
When they saw the chariots coming,
Moses said, Don’t be afraid.
Stand still and see the deliverance of the Lord.
The Angel of the Lord stood
between Israel and the Egyptians.
He caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind
and the waters were a wall on their right,
and on their left.
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When they were through the sea,
the Lord brought the waters crashing down on Pharaoh and his chariots.
Then the children of Israel sang,
I will sing to the Lord,
for He has triumphed gloriously.
The Lord is my strength and song,
and He is my salvation:
I will prepare Him a dwelling place;
I will exalt Him.
Your right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power.
The Lord will reign forever and ever.
Exodus 15:1, 2, 6
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In the desert, when these millions had no food,
the Lord rained bread from heaven for them. ‘
Man ate angel’s food,’
Psalm 78:25
When they longed for meat,
He brought quail from the sea.
When there was no water,
He brought water out of a rock for them.
At Mt. Sinai God gave the people
His high and holy law,
with the sacrifices picturing
the promised Lamb of God
who would take away all their sin.
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God gave Moses detailed instructions
to build a tabernacle for Him to dwell in
as He traveled with His people.
It was wood overlaid with gold,
a symbol of His closeness to us,
His Deity covering our humanity.
When it was finished, ‘
the Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle,
as He desires to fills us with ‘all the fullness of God.’
Ephesians 3:17-19
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He has triumphed gloriously
Leviticus
Perfected forever
I love you with an everlasting love,
says the Lord.
Therefore, with lovingkindness
I have drawn you to Me.
Jeremiah 31:3
We have a High Priest touched
with the feeling of our infirmities;
who was tested in all points as we are,
yet without sin.
So let us come boldly to His throne of grace,
to find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15,16
The Lord said to Moses,
If anyone desires to bring a gift
of his own freewill
before the Lord,
he is to put his hand on the head of the offering
(showing all our bad going into the offering,
all the Lord’s good going into the one offering)
and it will be accepted
(received with joyful delight)
for Him to make atonement
(covering) for him.
Leviticus 1:1-4
For Christ our Passover
was sacrificed for us.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Specific offerings for each area of life were detailed,
showing Christ’s complete work for us on the cross.
He fulfilled all of them
infinitely beyond anything
that could be necessary
because He is infinite.
By one sacrifice He perfected forever
those who believe.
Hebrews 10:14
When someone sinned,
they brought the specified offering
as a covering for their sin
until Christ actually died for it.
Leviticus 4:35
When the tabernacle was completed
and set up,
God’s priests began their service
of interceding between the people and God.
They were an illustration of Christ
interceding between the fallen human race
and their infinitely holy Maker,
Who is infinite love,
pointing them back to Him
who gives to all life and breath and all things.
Acts 17:25
He that didn’t spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all,
how will He not,
with Him,
freely give us all things?
Romans 8:32
Given all things!
He that overcomes will inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he will be My Son/daughter. Revelation 21:7
The priests went into the sanctuary
to be with the Lord
and offer the people’s gifts.
Then the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.
In Ezekiel’s visions he saw
a sapphire throne and on it
a fiery amber gemstone form of a man
flashing rainbows.
This was the glory of the Lord.
Ezekiel 1: 26-28
Fire went out from before the Lord
and consumed the offering.
Leviticus 9:23, 24
The people were forbidden to eat blood:
it was the symbol of all God’s love poured out
for all
in the death of His Son.
Mating with near relatives, same sexes,
or animals is forbidden
(because these activities join people with demons).
‘Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.’
Leviticus 11:44
He gave us life,
and holds our life and breath in His hand.
Job 12:10
(When you can make a universe,
then you can make the rules.)
J. Vernon McGee
The rules God gave are high and holy:
and too hard for man in his fallen,
prideful state to keep.
They are meant to be too hard
so we won’t trust in ourselves, but in God
who 'raises the dead.’
2 Corinthians 1:9
Those that hear Him,
whatever you do will prosper. Psalm 1
And I will give peace in the land,
and you will lie down,
and nothing will make you afraid.
The sword (violence and war)
won’t go through your land.
Five of you will chase 100,
and 100 of you will put 10,000 to flight.
Leviticus 26:3-9
But you refuse to hear,
I will do the opposite:
The heavens will withhold their rain.
You will have scarcity and illness
and trouble on every side:
man-eating animals and violent enemies.
I will cast you out of this land
of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates:
a land of olive oil and honey:
a land of brooks of water and fountains
that spring out of valleys and hills.
Deuteronomy 8:7,8
The glory of all lands. Ezekiel 20:6
The law made nothing perfect,
but to bring in a better hope,
by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:19
Seeing then that we have
a Great High Priest,
who passed into the heavens,
Jesus the Son of God.
Hebrews 4:14
Because He continues forever,
He has an unchangeable priesthood.
He is able also to save to the uttermost
those that come to God by Him.
Hebrews 7:24
seeing He ever lives
to make intercession for them.
Such a High Priest is fitting for us,
who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners,
higher than the heavens:
Hebrews 7:25,26
sitting at the right hand
of the throne of the Eternal Majesty.
Hebrews 8:1
If the blood of bulls and of goats,
purified for one year,
How much more will the blood of Christ,
(being infinite and eternal)
Who through the Eternal Spirit
offered Himself to God.
Hebrews 9:13, 14
And by that one offering
has perfected forever
those that are sanctified.
Hebrews 10:14
And this Christ dwells in our hearts
by faith
so we will know His love
which is beyond knowledge,
and be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19
Higher than the heavens
Numbers
How great is His goodness,
how great is His beauty.’
Zechariah 9:17
The beautiful Maker of all,
placed at the east of Eden Cherubim
(beautiful 4-winged beings of light),
and a flaming sword
to guard the way of the tree of life,
Genesis 3:24,
(guarding to keep the way open
for man to return to His Maker,
and to prevent them from eating
from the tree of life
in their fallen state,
and being like that forever,
instead of being restored
back into the image of God.)
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The Lord spoke to Moses
in the wilderness of Sinai saying,
Count every male from 20 years old and up,
all able to go to war.
Numbers 1:2, 3
The Lord is a man of war:
Exodus 15:3
at war against evil, protecting the life He created
that is ‘exceedingly abundantly beyond what
we can imagine.’
Ephesians 3:20
Each warrior was registered
by their family name as Jacob’s sons,
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with their family flag flying high
over their precisely ordered camp.
Aaron’s family from Levi was exempt:
to care for the sanctuary,
to lead worship,
and to spoke God’s blessings
over the people.
The day the sanctuary was set up,
the glory of God filled His sanctuary
and appeared in a pillar of cloud
over it by day.
At evening His glory appeared
as a pillar of fire above it until morning.
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When the cloud moved,
Israel broke camp and followed the Lord.
When it stopped, they rested.
The Lord was always with them throughout their journeys, resting them.
He sent ‘angel’s food’ from heaven for them,
and when they wanted meat,
the Lord brought them quail from the sea.
The Lord sent12 men to search the promised land.
40 days later,
10 of them reported,
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There are giants in the land.
We look like grasshoppers next to them.
Caleb said, The Lord will bring us into this land.
It truly flows with milk and honey.
Numbers14:8
The people wept that night
and the Lord spoke of consuming them,
but Moses prayed,
and the Lord said,
I have pardoned.
But as truly as I live,
all the earth will be filled with
the glory of the Lord.
Numbers 14:1,20,21
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It was an 11-day journey
to the promised land that
took 40 years because of their unbelief.
A man of the family of Levi
who served at the sanctuary
gathered 250 men and defied Moses’ authority.
Moses prayed and then said,
If the Lord makes a new thing,
and the earth opens,
and they go down alive into the pit,
you will understand that
these men despised the Lord.
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And the earth opened her mouth
and swallowed them.
Numbers 16:30-32
The revolt continued and the Lord said,
Take a staff for each family
and carve the family name on it.
Put them beside the ark of the covenant.
The man's staff whom I choose,
will blossom.
Aaron’s staff budded, blossomed,
and grew almonds.
In the desert of Zin there was no water,
Aaron was told,
9
Speak to the rock
and it will give water for you
and your livestock to drink.
Numbers 20:2,11
The king of Moab saw the camp of Israel
spread out in beautiful order on the plain below him
and was terrified.
He sent for Balaam, saying,
Come, curse this people for me.
When Balaam arrived, he said,
I have no power to say anything,
but what God puts in my mouth.
Numbers 22:38
10
Balaam reported: How can I curse
whom God has not cursed?
Let me die the death of the righteous
and let my last end be like his!
Numbers 23:10
The king was furious
but wanted to try again.
The word came, God is not like man,
who lies or changes His mind.
He does what He says.
He has not seen iniquity in Israel
(because they are covered by the promised Savior).
11
Behold, this people will rise as a great lion.
The Lord his God is with him,
and the shout of a King is among them
(absolute victory).
The Lord is the true God.
He is the living God, and the everlasting king. Jeremiah 10:10
When the people joined
with the god of Moab and went to orgies,
the Lord’s anger blazed,
and a plague began among them.
Phinehas interceded
and stopped the plague.
12
Then the Lord said, I give him
My covenant of peace
and an everlasting priesthood;
because he was passionate for his God
and made atonement for the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:12
(Like Jesus did for all the sin in the universe
for all time and eternity)
But this man, Jesus,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down on the right hand of God.
Hebrews 10:12
13
All sin, all gone, forever.
He that overcomes
(always and only by faith
in what Jesus did for us)
will inherit all things.
I will be His God
and he will be My Son/daughter.
Revelation 21:7
And this is the victory that overcomes:
our faith.
1 John 5:4
(because ‘as a man thinks in his heart,
that’s what he is.’
Proverbs 23:7)
Action comes after thought.
14
Every time you believe God
you have won a victory over evil.
Heaven opened
and I
saw a white horse;
and He that sat on him
was called Faithful and True.
And in righteousness He judges
and makes war.
Revelation 19:11-16
Thanks be to God,
Who always causes us to triumph in Christ.
2 Corinthians 2:14
15
King of Kings and
Lord of Lords
Deuteronomy
Behold, I have set the land before you:
go in and possess the land.
Deuteronomy 1:8
The glory of all lands:
Ezekiel 20:6,
a land of brooks of water, of fountains
and depths that spring
out of valleys and hills,
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines,
and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of oil olive, and honey.
Deuteronomy 8:7, 8
Moses told the God's people:
The Lord has multiplied you as the stars of heaven.
Deuteronomy 1:10
3
Don’t fear the people
who are now living in the land,
for the Lord your God goes before you;
He will fight for you like you saw Him do in Egypt.
In the wilderness you saw how the Lord carries you
as a man carries his son;
and He led you in a pillar of fire by night
and in a cloud by day.
Deuteronomy 1:30-34
The Almighty has a ‘promised land’
for each person He created.
4
This day I will begin to put
the fear of you
on all he nations that are under heaven.
Deuteronomy 2:25
You who held tight
to the Lord your God
are alive this day.
What nation is so great
that it has God so near to them
as the Lord our God is,
in all things we ask of Him?’
And what nation has such right ways
as our God?
5
If you don’t hear Him,
He will scatter you
to all the nations under heaven.
And if from there you seek the Lord,
you will find Him:
Deuteronomy 4:29
for the Lord your God is a merciful God.
He will not forsake you.
He will bring about your complete deliverance
and every desire
ordered and secure in every detail.
2 Samuel 23:5
There is no other God beside Him.
6
Listening to Him will prolong
your days on the earth.
The Lord showed us His glory
and His greatness.
We heard His voice
out the midst of the fire:
Don’t make images.
They can’t talk, walk, or see.
Don’t use My name for wrong purposes.
Rest in Me.
Honor your father and mother.
Don’t lie, steal, murder,
commit adultery, or covet.
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart.
7
That’s how He loves you;
He gave His whole eternal,
infinite life to have you for His own.
The Lord will send hornets
among those nations
until they are destroyed.
Don’t fear them: the Lord is with you,
awesome in power.
He is bringing you into a good land:
a land of brooks of water,
of fountains and depths that spring
out of valleys and hills:
a land where you won’t lack anything.
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
8
Eye hasn’t seen, O God,
beside You, what He is prepared
for him that waits for Him.
Isaiah 64:4
There is none like God,
who rides in His excellency
on the sky to help you.
Deuteronomy 33:26
The Lord drives out nations
for their wickedness
for The Lord is God of gods,
a great God, mighty and awesome,
impartial, and can’t be bribed.
9
Deuteronomy 10:17
The Lord cares for your land;
His eyes are always on it.
You are a holy people to Him:
His special treasure,
above all the nations on earth.
When you go to battle against your enemies
and see horses, chariots,
and an army larger than you, don’t be afraid.
The Lord your God is with you
to fight for you, to save you.
Deuteronomy 20:1,3, 4
10
If any of you has built a new house
or planted a field
or betrothed a wife and not married her,
go home so you won’t die in battle
before you have enjoyed these things.
Anyone fearful among you return home
so you won’t spread fear among the others.
When you come to a city to fight,
first, offer them peace.
If they open to you
then set them under My rules
and charge them taxes.
11
The priests are to settle every controversy.
Keep perfect and just weights and measures.
Those who cheat,
make the Lord look like a cheat,
Who gives life and breath and all things.
Acts 17:25
He will make you high above all nations.
The Lord’s portion is His people,
His inheritance.
Revere His glorious and awesome being.
Deuteronomy 32:9
12
Cling to Him
for He is your life,
and the length of your days.
Deuteronomy 30:20
Be strong and courageous,
for the Lord your God is with you;
He won’t fail or forsake you.
Isaiah 41:10
He is the Rock,
His work is perfect: all His ways are justice:
a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is He.
Deuteronomy 32:4
See now that I, I, am He.
13
There is no god with Me:
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal:
none can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32:39
He loves the people.
Deuteronomy 33:3
Bless the Lord
and don’t forget all His benefits:
Who forgives all our sins,
heals all our diseases;
and crowns us with His love.
And renews your youth like the eagle's.
Psalm 103:1-5
14
The eternal God is our refuge,
and underneath you
are His everlasting arms.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The Lord Himself
will descend from heaven with a shout
and the trumpet of God.
And we will be caught up
to meet the Lord in the air
and will always be with Him.
1 Thessalonians 4:16,17
I will come and receive you to Myself
to be with Me.
John 14:3
15
In Everlasting Arms
Joshua
Cross over into the land
The Lord told Joshua
at the entrance to the promised land,
Every place you walk, I have given to you.
No one will be able stand against you all your days:
as I was with Moses,
so I will be with you.
Joshua 1:1-3
I will not fail you or forsake you.
said the Lord God Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth.
Be strong and very courageous,
to keep all My words.
Don’t turn to the right or to the left,
then you will prosper wherever you go.
3
Joshua sent out 2 men secretly, to spy.
They came to the house of a harlot named Rahab
and stayed there.
The king heard and sent to get them.
God promises us:
You are my hiding place;
You will preserve me from trouble;
You surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:7
Rahab told the king’s men,
They left at sunset
before the closing of the gate.
But she had hidden them
on her roof among stalks of flax.
4
Before the men lay down so sleep,
she came to the roof and said,
I know that the Lord
has given you the land.
Everyone in our land fears you
since we heard how the Lord
dried up the Red Sea for you.
And no courage remained
when you utterly destroyed
the 2 Amorite kings.
The Lord, He is God
in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
5
She lowered them down by a rope
out the window, saying,
Go to the mountains and hide for 3 days,
until the patrol searching for you returns.
Joshua 2
After hearing the spies report
Joshua told the people,
Sanctify yourselves
for tomorrow the Lord
will do wonders among you.
This camp of millions
prepared to cross the Jordan river,
which was already overflowing its banks
at that time of year.
6
When the feet of the priests
that carried the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth,
stood in the waters of Jordan River,
the waters were cut off from above
and stood up in a heap;
and all the Israelites
passed over on dry ground.
When Joshua was by Jericho,
a man stood opposite him
with His sword drawn in His hand.
Joshua said, Are you for us,
or for our enemies?
7
He said, No,
I come now as Captain
of the Lord’s army.
Joshua fell on his face and worshipped.
The Lord’s said, Take off your shoes
for the place where you stand is holy.
Joshua 5:13-15
I saw the Lord sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up,
and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Seraphim hovered above calling Holy, holy, holy,
is the Lord of hosts:
the whole earth is full of His glory.
Isaiah 6:1, 3
8
Archaeologists found the walls of Jericho
were 6 feet thick and 32-41 feet high.
The Lord had the priests
carry the ark of the covenant
before the warriors,
marching around Jericho without speaking
or making a sound for 7 days.
On the 7th day they went around 7 times
and then blew trumpets, and the wall fell flat.
Israel charged in and conquered,
saving only Rahab and her family,
destroying much evil.
Joshua 6
9
The Lord brought Rahab and her family
into His eternal royal family.
God is no respecter of persons
but in every nation
ones that fear Him and do right,
are accepted with Him.
Acts 10:34, 35
The city of Gibeon tricked Israel,
pretending to be from a far county,
not one under the curse
of total destruction for deepest evil.
Joshua and the princes made peace with them
without asking the Lord.
Joshua 9
10
Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
In all your ways acknowledge Him
and He will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5,6
Five kings assembled and attacked Gibeon
for making peace with Israel.
Gibeon called to Israel for help.
The Lord said, Don't fear.
As the armies ran from Israel,
the Lord 'cast down great stones from heaven'
and more died with hailstones
than those killed with the sword.
11
Joshua commanded, Sun, stand still
and moon, in the valley.
The sun stood still in heaven a whole day.
There has been no day like that
before it or after,
for the Lord fought for Israel.
Joshua 10:12-14
The Lord led Joshua
throughout the land,
Israel conquering king after king,
31 in all.
Caleb was the spy that Moses sent
with Joshua 40 years earlier.
He said, ‘I’m 85 years old today.
The Lord kept me alive
12
and I’m as strong today
as when Moses sent me to search the land,
because I wholly followed the Lord.
My words are life to all who find them
and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:20-22
Caleb said to Joshua, Give me this mountain (Hebron:Communion)
If the Lord will be with me,
then I will be able to drive the enemies out.
Joshua gave him the mountain.
13
He conquered it.
And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 14:12-15
The Lord gave to Israel
all the land He promised;
and they possessed it and dwelt there.
The Lord gave them rest all around.
None of all their enemies
was able to defeat them;
the Lord delivered
all their enemies into their hand.
Not one thing failed
of any good thing the Lord had spoken;
all came to pass.
Joshua 21:43-45
14
All these things happened to them
for examples to us,
on whom the ends of this age has come.
and they are written for us to know Him.
1 Corinthians 10:11
My peace I give you.
Don' let your hearts be troubled
or afraid. John 14:27
Jesus has the peace of the One
who has all the power.
Matthew 28:18
15
All Power in heaven
and earth
The Glory of God
in Judges
I will never break My covenant with you
www.truthofhim2.com.
The Angel of the Lord came to Israel saying,
I brought you out of Egypt,
to the land I promised, and said,
I will never break My
covenant with you.
Don't make covenants others.
Judges 2:2
Have no other god but Me.
Exodus 20:3
For all the gods of the nations are idols:
but the Lord made the heavens.
Psalm 96:53
They chose new gods; then war was in the gates.
Judges 5:8
The Lord let them be captured by ones they were trusting, to show them who has the power,
who truly loved them.
Then in His great love and compassion,
the Lord raised up a judge to deliver them.
The Lord was with the judge
and delivered them from their enemies
all the days of that judge.
Judges 2:15-18
4
At a time when Deborah was judging Israel
the nation was captive under king Jabin.
He had 900 iron chariots.
The people groaned under his hard rule for 20 years. When they cried out to the Lord.
Deborah sent word to commander Barak,
The Lord says, Go to mount Tabor,
with 10,000 men.
The Lord won a mighty victory for them,
but the glory went to a woman, Jael,
5
because the commander refused
to go to the battle without Deborah.
Judges 4:6
When the children of Israel again did evil,
the Lord delivered them
into the hand of Midian 7 years,
who ate their crops and left no food.
When His people cried to Him,
He said, I delivered you from Egypt
and all that oppressed youand gave you this land.
I am the Lord your God;
don’t fear these other gods
that can’t talk or walk or see.
6
The Angel of the Lord came
and sat under an oak
where Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress
to hide it from the Midianites.
The Angel said, The Lord is with you.
Go. I’m sending you
to save Israel from the Midianites.
Gideon said, Oh my Lord,
how can I save Israel?
My family and I are the least in Israel.
The Lord said, I will be with you.
7
(Do we need more help
than the Almighty Maker of the universe?)
The Lord told Gideon,
You will strike the Midianites
as if they were just one man.Judges 6:9-16
Gideon brought an offering to the Angel
and He touched the offering with His staff.
Fire rose out of the rock and consumed the offering.
Then the angel of the Lord
departed out of his sight.Judges 6:21
Gideon said, O God!
8
I have seen the Lord face to Face.
The Lord said, Peace to you; you won’t die.
Judges 6:20-23
'I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.' John 10:10
The Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon.
When the warriors were gathered, the Lord said,
Send away all but 300,
so Israel will know it was
I who saved them. Judges 7:2
The Lord told Gideon,
Surround this vast army at night,
9
each man with a trumpet in one hand
and a torch in a pitcher in the other.
At the signal, all 300 blew their trumpets
and broke the pitchers so the light blazed.
The army woke up, were terrified,
and killed one another without Israel lifting a sword.
The people tried to crown Gideon king.
He said, I will not rule over you, or my son.
The Lord rules over you.
Judges 8:23
10
Each time they turned from their idols
and served the Lord,
His soul was grieved for their misery.
Judges 10:14
Later, when Israel had been under the Philistines
for 40 years,they cried to the Lord.
(Oppression opens the ears to hear Him.
Job 36:15)
The Lord raised Samson.
Judges 13:6
And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him.
11
He killed a lion with his bare hands,
and he killed 1,000 men with the jawbone of a donkey.
He loved a woman, Delilah,
and five lords of the Philistines
each promised her 1,100 pieces of silver for his capture.
She plagued him repeatedly
until he told her the secret of His great strength:
his hair had never been cut.
While sleeping with his head on her lap,
they cut his hair.
12
They captured him, put out his eyes,
and set him to pushing the grinding stone in the prison.
And his hair began to grow.
When the Philistines gathered
to celebrate Samson’s capture,
they brought him out to ‘entertain them.’
He prayed, Strengthen me once more, O God,
that I may avenge my two eyes.
He took hold of the two middle pillars
that held up the temple and prayed,
Let me die with the Philistines.
13
In the days of the judges
there was no king in Israel: every man did
what was right in his own eyes.
Judges 21:25
Trust in the Lord with all you heart
and don’t lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him
and He will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5, 6
He that rules over men must be just,
ruling in the fear of God. 2 Samuel 23:3
14
The time of the judges lasted 450 years.
What a glory to God
to accomplish His infinitely grand
and exquisite plan through frail, feeble mortals.
Grace and peace to you from Jesus Christ,
the firstborn from the dead,
the Prince over the kings of the earth;
who loves us and washed us from our sins
in His own blood,
and has made us kings and priests to God,
His Father. Revelation 1:5, 6
15
Kings and priests forever
The Glory of God
in Ruth, Ezra, Nehemiah
With great joy
During the days when the judges ruled
there was a famine in Israel.
Elimelech took his wife and sons to live
in the country of Moab.
Elimelech and his two sons died there,
leaving his wife, Naomi, and 2 daughters-in-law.
Naomi heard the Lord had given His people food,
so prepared to return to Bethlehem,
saying to her 2 daughters,
Go back to your families
and the Lord deal graciously with you,
3
as you have been gracious with the dead,
and with me.
The Lord grant you rest in the house of her husband.
One daughter returned,
but Ruth said, ‘Don’t ask me to leave you.
Where you go, I will go;
and where you stay, I will stay:
your people will be my people,
and your God my God.
When they came to Bethlehem,
for food,
Ruth gleaned after the barley harvesters
4
in the field of their relative, Boaz,
a wealthy, respected man
who had the right
to redeem Ruth and Naomi’s fields
and to marry Ruth
and raise up an heir for their family line.
He, like the Lord with us,
took her under his wing, protected her,
married her, provided for her and Naomi.
and raised up 'the heir’
who became the great, great, great grandfather
of king David,
and generations later,
the ancestor our eternal Redeemer,
the Lord Jesus Christ.
5
Ezra
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
king of Persia, who said,
The Lord God of heaven
has given me all the kingdoms of the earth;
and He has charged me to build Him
a house at Jerusalem.
Who among all His people,
His God be with him, will go and build it.
He is the God.
42,360 Israelites returned to Israel,
6
carrying the treasures and gold and silver utensils
that were taken when the city was captured.
In the 7th month they built an altar
and began worship there
with morning and evening sacrifices which showed
His great promise of eternal salvation.
When the foundation was completed,
they sang together praising
and giving thanks to the Lord;
because He is good,
for His faithful love endures forever.
7
And all the people shouted
with great shouts of joy,
praising the Lord.
Enemies delayed the work
by writing to king Darius saying
these people were rebellions
and wouldn’t pay taxes.
The king wrote back,
Let the work alone;
I decree that you fully finance this
from my treasuries there
and provide all priests require,
without fail,
day by day,
for sweet sacrifices
to the God of heaven,
and to pray for the king,
and his sons.
8
Nehemiah
Nehemiah heard that the Israelites
who’d returned to build the temple at Jerusalem
were in great trouble
with the wall broken down and the gates burned.
He wept and prayed, These are Your people,
You redeemed by Your great power.
Grant me favor with the king.
The king gave letters of passage, timber needed
9
and a military escort ‘according to
the good hand of my God upon me.'
We began to build
and enemies came and ridiculed us,
I said to them, The God of heaven,
He will prosper us.
We posted lookouts in the high places
and armed everyone for battle.
Half the people worked
and half stood guard at each site
with spears, shields, and bows, saying,
‘our God will fight for us.’
10
Israel’s leaders were charging
their own people such high taxes that the people
were selling their fields
and even their children into slavery.
Nehemiah stopped it all
and had them give back the children,
lands, and excess money they’d taken.
The wall was finished in 52 days
and the enemies were downcast,
for they perceived that this work
was done by our God.’
11
I am the vine and you are the branches.
Without Me you can do nothing.
John 15:5
All the people gathered before the water gate;
and asked Ezra to read the book
of the law of Moses.
When they heard, they wept.
Nehemiah said, This day is holy to the Lord your God; Don’t mourn or weep
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.’
Nehemiah 8:10
12
Stand up and bless
the Lord your God forever:
blessed be Your glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
You are Lord alone;
You made heaven and the heaven of heavens,
the earth, and all things in it,
the seas and all that is in it.
You preserve them all;
and all in heaven worship You.
You saved Your people from Egypt
and divided the sea for them,
so they went through on dry ground.
13
You gave them bread from heaven to eat
and brought water out of the rock for their thirst,
and took them into the land You promised,
but they weren’t mindful of your wonders and rebelled.
You are just in all that is brought on us.
But you are a God ready to pardon,
gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and didn’t forsake them:
You gave them kingdoms and nations
14
and multiplied them as the stars of heaven
and we have done wickedly.
At the dedication of the wall
great sacrifices were offered to the Lord,
and God made them rejoice
with great joy.
In Your Presence is fullness of joy
and at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 16:11
15
With great joy