How to Live in
Peace
Eternal Life! Complete Peace!
By Riqui Ricón*
Praise the Lord, all you nations;
extol him, all you peoples.
For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of
the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. (Psalm 117,
NIV)
What reasons do I have to praise the Lord? I
love that question, because I could give you over a million reasons
to praise Him! And to show you just one of them, I’ll share something that
will impress you so much that you’ll be shouting with joy to the Lord.
Get ready to be impacted
by the Word of God—the
Bible—which never lies! One of the most beautiful promises
God gives you says:
You will keep in perfect
peace those whose minds are steadfast, because
they trust in you. (Isaiah 26:3, NIV)
So, if you put all your trust in God’s Word, making
it the ultimate standard for your life, and keep it in your mind,
your mouth, and your heart—steadfastly believing it—then God commits Himself to
keeping you in perfect peace.
Perfect peace!
It’s truly amazing to know you were destined
to enjoy COMPLETE PEACE, without any kind of fear or affliction. Would you like that? Of course! Well, guess what? God has promised it to
you!
“I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.”
(John 16:33, NIV)
In this world you will face troubles, but
through the love of Jesus Christ, you will overcome them all and be more than a conqueror. Therefore, you can live
in peace—nothing and no one will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life!
“No one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was
with Moses. I will never fail you or abandon you.” (Joshua
1:5, TLA)
Whatever
it is you’re facing today, right there in the middle of it, you can have peace. You know that you know that
God, your Father, will never fail to keep His Word—and therefore, victory is
already yours.
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved
us.” (Romans 8:37, NIV)
Then make the decision to set all your thoughts
and your heart on the Word of God, and He will keep you in perfect
peace. He has never lied, and He never will—He cannot lie.
“Yea, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4, KJV)
So if God says that even though you walk
through the valley of the shadow of death you will fear no evil because
He is with you, then that is the Truth: God is with you! And if God is with you, who
can be against you?
“What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans
8:31, KJV)
Pay close attention, because the thing that
most torments all of humanity— and sadly, also most believers—is the fear of
death. It’s something people prefer not to think about, yet it lingers in the
back of their minds every moment of their lives. If they truly understood what
Jesus did about it, and what God has declared in His Word, and if they believed
it, they would never
again be afraid.
God says in His Word:
He will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
from all faces; he will remove
his people’s disgrace
from all the earth. The Lord
has spoken. In that day they
will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord,
we trusted in him; let us rejoice
and be glad in his
salvation.” (Isaiah 25:8–9, NIV)
When will this happen? Good news—it already did! More than two thousand years ago, on that hill called
Golgotha, or “the place of the skull,”
just outside Jerusalem.
When the perishable has been clothed
with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying
that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O
death, is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power
of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God! He gives
us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. (1
Corinthians 15:54–57, NIV)
This VICTORY took place when He gave His
life out of love for you, and you received it the moment you acknowledged Him as the Lord and Savior of your
life. At that very moment, you were BORN AGAIN, and everything corruptible in
you was clothed with incorruption:
For you have been born again,
not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and
enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23, NIV)
Now you are a Born-Again Son or Daughter of
God, and through Christ Jesus’ victory over sin and death, you are completely free from the slavery caused
by the fear of death.
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
in their humanity
so that by his death he might
break the power of him who holds the power of death— that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their
fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14–15, NIV)
If all this is true—and
of course it is—then it only makes sense to stop suffering and worrying about death. Instead,
believe and receive that peace and joy
that surpass all understanding, the very ones Jesus bought
for you when He died on
that cross.
Or could it be that God is lying when He
promises that “whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV)? And what is Eternal Life if not to live forever? Even
if it’s hard to grasp at first, don’t doubt it— believe it! Five thousand years
from now, you and I will still be here, thinking, laughing, and enjoying
life—the full and abundant life that Christ Jesus purchased for you!
Many people struggle
to BELIEVE this,
but is anything too hard for God? Will He not fulfill what He has written in His
Word? The answer is this: if you can believe Him—if you believe God’s Word—then
everything is possible for you.
You have Eternal Life! You have Perfect Peace!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I thank You
once again for Your great and endless Love. You have made me Your child. You
didn’t care about my sins or my failures—you gave Your Son, Jesus Christ, to
pay for me so that I could receive Eternal Life. All because of Your amazing
Love! Even when I was dead in my sins, You gave me Life together with Christ.
Eternal Life! Thank You, Jesus—because of You, I live, and I will live forever,
for You conquered death for me. I have Your Word! The Word of God! The Word of
Honor! I can do all things! In all things, I am more than a conqueror! You,
Lord, will keep me in perfect peace because my thoughts remain on You. Lord of
Hosts, blessed, joyful, and fulfilled is the man or woman who trusts in You—and
that’s me! (put your name here). For all this, I believe
and declare: I am healed!
I am free! I am prosperous! I am joyful! I am a true and legitimate
Born-Again Child of God! In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
October 27 2 Thessalonians 1 / Isaiah 25-26 / Psalm 117
2 Thessalonians
1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church
of the Thessalonians in God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren,
as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other
aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest
token of the righteous judgment
of God, that ye may be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing
with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble
you;
7 And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels,
8 In flaming
fire taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ:
9 Who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the
glory of his power;
10 When he shall
come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because
our testimony among
you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we
pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling,
and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness,
and the work of faith with
power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah
25
O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou
hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced
city a ruin: a palace
of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify
thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast
been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
against the wall.
5 Thou shalt
bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even
the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low.
6 And in this
mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy
in this mountain
the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations.
8 He will swallow
up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke
of his people shall he take away from off all
the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us:
this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain
shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw
is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth
forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the
dust.
26 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates,
that the righteous
nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor,
and the steps
of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright,
dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire
of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have
I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants
of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be
shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by
thee only will we make mention of thy name.
How to Live in
Peace
Eternal Life! Complete Peace!
By Riqui Ricón*
Praise the Lord, all you nations;
extol him, all you peoples.
For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of
the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. (Psalm 117,
NIV)
What reasons do I have to praise the Lord? I
love that question, because I could give you over a million reasons
to praise Him! And to show you just one of them, I’ll share something that
will impress you so much that you’ll be shouting with joy to the Lord.
Get ready to be impacted
by the Word of God—the
Bible—which never lies! One of the most beautiful promises
God gives you says:
You will keep in perfect
peace those whose minds are steadfast, because
they trust in you. (Isaiah 26:3, NIV)
So, if you put all your trust in God’s Word, making
it the ultimate standard for your life, and keep it in your mind,
your mouth, and your heart—steadfastly believing it—then God commits Himself to
keeping you in perfect peace.
Perfect peace!
It’s truly amazing to know you were destined
to enjoy COMPLETE PEACE, without any kind of fear or affliction. Would you like that? Of course! Well, guess what? God has promised it to
you!
“I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.”
(John 16:33, NIV)
In this world you will face troubles, but
through the love of Jesus Christ, you will overcome them all and be more than a conqueror. Therefore, you can live
in peace—nothing and no one will be able to stand against
you all the days of your life!
“No one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was
with Moses. I will never fail you or abandon you.” (Joshua
1:5, TLA)
Whatever
it is you’re facing today, right there in the middle of it, you can have peace. You know that you know that
God, your Father, will never fail to keep His Word—and therefore, victory is
already yours.
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved
us.” (Romans 8:37, NIV)
Then make the decision to set all your thoughts
and your heart on the Word of God, and He will keep you in perfect
peace. He has never lied, and He never will—He cannot lie.
“Yea, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4, KJV)
So if God says that even though you walk
through the valley of the shadow of death you will fear no evil because
He is with you, then that is the Truth: God is with you! And if God is with you, who
can be against you?
“What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans
8:31, KJV)
Pay close attention, because the thing that
most torments all of humanity— and sadly, also most believers—is the fear of
death. It’s something people prefer not to think about, yet it lingers in the
back of their minds every moment of their lives. If they truly understood what
Jesus did about it, and what God has declared in His Word, and if they believed
it, they would never
again be afraid.
God says in His Word:
He will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
from all faces; he will remove
his people’s disgrace
from all the earth. The Lord
has spoken. In that day they
will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord,
we trusted in him; let us rejoice
and be glad in his
salvation.” (Isaiah 25:8–9, NIV)
When will this happen? Good news—it already did! More than two thousand years ago, on that hill called
Golgotha, or “the place of the skull,”
just outside Jerusalem.
When the perishable has been clothed
with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying
that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O
death, is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power
of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God! He gives
us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. (1
Corinthians 15:54–57, NIV)
This VICTORY took place when He gave His
life out of love for you, and you received it the moment you acknowledged Him as the Lord and Savior of your
life. At that very moment, you were BORN AGAIN, and everything corruptible in
you was clothed with incorruption:
For you have been born again,
not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and
enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23, NIV)
Now you are a Born-Again Son or Daughter of
God, and through Christ Jesus’ victory over sin and death, you are completely free from the slavery caused
by the fear of death.
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared
in their humanity
so that by his death he might
break the power of him who holds the power of death— that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their
fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14–15, NIV)
If all this is true—and
of course it is—then it only makes sense to stop suffering and worrying about death. Instead,
believe and receive that peace and joy
that surpass all understanding, the very ones Jesus bought
for you when He died on
that cross.
Or could it be that God is lying when He
promises that “whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NIV)? And what is Eternal Life if not to live forever? Even
if it’s hard to grasp at first, don’t doubt it— believe it! Five thousand years
from now, you and I will still be here, thinking, laughing, and enjoying
life—the full and abundant life that Christ Jesus purchased for you!
Many people struggle
to BELIEVE this,
but is anything too hard for God? Will He not fulfill what He has written in His
Word? The answer is this: if you can believe Him—if you believe God’s Word—then
everything is possible for you.
You have Eternal Life! You have Perfect Peace!
Let’s pray out loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I thank You
once again for Your great and endless Love. You have made me Your child. You
didn’t care about my sins or my failures—you gave Your Son, Jesus Christ, to
pay for me so that I could receive Eternal Life. All because of Your amazing
Love! Even when I was dead in my sins, You gave me Life together with Christ.
Eternal Life! Thank You, Jesus—because of You, I live, and I will live forever,
for You conquered death for me. I have Your Word! The Word of God! The Word of
Honor! I can do all things! In all things, I am more than a conqueror! You,
Lord, will keep me in perfect peace because my thoughts remain on You. Lord of
Hosts, blessed, joyful, and fulfilled is the man or woman who trusts in You—and
that’s me! (put your name here). For all this, I believe
and declare: I am healed!
I am free! I am prosperous! I am joyful! I am a true and legitimate
Born-Again Child of God! In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a Child of God? How do I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer
aloud, putting all your attention
and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of
God. That You came into this world, born
of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. Therefore, today I say that I accept. I accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I accept Your precious
Blood shed to the last drop out of love for me! I open my
heart to You and invite You in
because I want, Lord Jesus, that from today and forever You be my only and sufficient Savior, my
God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this
simple prayer and profession of faith I have passed from death to Life, I have been transferred from darkness
to Your marvelous Light. Today I have been Born Again! God, now I am Your
Child! Now You are my Father! I will never be alone again! I will never live
defeated again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible
is the Word of God, so
get a Bible and start reading and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The
Bible in One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year (palabradehonor.org). You will notice
that the program is set up so you can print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based
on the Good News, which are
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have read the
entire Bible.
October 27 2 Thessalonians 1 / Isaiah 25-26 / Psalm 117
2 Thessalonians
1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church
of the Thessalonians in God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren,
as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other
aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest
token of the righteous judgment
of God, that ye may be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing
with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble
you;
7 And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels,
8 In flaming
fire taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ:
9 Who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the
glory of his power;
10 When he shall
come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because
our testimony among
you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we
pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling,
and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness,
and the work of faith with
power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah
25
O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise
thy name; for thou
hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced
city a ruin: a palace
of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify
thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4 For thou hast
been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow
from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm
against the wall.
5 Thou shalt
bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even
the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low.
6 And in this
mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow,
of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy
in this mountain
the face of the covering
cast over all people, and the vail that is spread
over all nations.
8 He will swallow
up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the rebuke
of his people shall he take away from off all
the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us:
this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain
shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw
is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall
spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth
forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the
dust.
26 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates,
that the righteous
nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground;
he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor,
and the steps
of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright,
dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited
for thee; the desire
of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul have
I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants
of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favour be
shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by
thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead,
they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited
and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured
out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in
pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with
child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought
any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth
shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a
little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the
LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity:
the earth also shall disclose
her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Psalm
117 O praise
the LORD, all ye nations:
praise him, all ye people.
2 For
his merciful kindness
is great toward
us: and the truth of the
LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the
LORD.
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