Deuteronomy 7, Psalm 90, Isaiah 35, Revelation 5

Deuteronomy 7,

1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations-the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-
 
2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
 
3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
 
4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
 
5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.
 
6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
 
7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
 
8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
 
9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
 
10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
 
11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.
 
12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.
 
13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land-your grain, new wine and oil-the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you.
 
14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.
 
15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.
 
16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
 
17 You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"
 
18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
 
19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
 
20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.
 
21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
 
22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.
 
23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.
 
24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
 
25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
 
26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Psalm 90,

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
 
2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
 
3 You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."
 
4 For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
 
5 You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning-
 
6 though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.
 
7 We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
 
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
 
9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
 
10 The length of our days is seventy years-or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
 
11 Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
 
12 Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
 
13 Relent, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
 
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
 
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
 
16 May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.
 
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us-yes, establish the work of our hands.

Isaiah 35,

1 The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus,
 
2 it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
 
3 Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
 
4 say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."
 
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
 
6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
 
7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
 
8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.
 
9 No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
 
10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Revelation 5

1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.
 
2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?"
 
3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.
 
4 I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.
 
5 Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."
 
6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
 
7 He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
 
8 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
 
9 And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
 
10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."
 
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
 
12 In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!"
 
13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
 
14 The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and worshiped.