Deuteronomy 22, Psalm 110, 111, Isaiah 49, Revelation 19

Deuteronomy 22,

1 If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him.
 
2 If the brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, take it home with you and keep it until he comes looking for it. Then give it back to him.
 
3 Do the same if you find your brother's donkey or his cloak or anything he loses. Do not ignore it.
 
4 If you see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.
 
5 A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.
 
6 If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
 
7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
 
8 When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
 
9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
 
10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
 
11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
 
12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
 
13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
 
14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,"
 
15 then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
 
16 The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
 
17 Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
 
18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
 
19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
 
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found,
 
21 she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
 
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
 
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
 
24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death-the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
 
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
 
26 Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor,
 
27 for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
 
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
 
29 he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
 
30 A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.

Psalm 110, 111,

1 The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."
 
2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.
 
3 Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.
 
4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
 
5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
 
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
 
7 He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

1 Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.
 
2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
 
3 Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.
 
4 He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
 
5 He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.
 
6 He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.
 
7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.
 
8 They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.
 
9 He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever-holy and awesome is his name.
 
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Isaiah 49,

1 Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name.
 
2 He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
 
3 He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor."
 
4 But I said, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God."
 
5 And now the LORD says-he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength-
 
6 he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."
 
7 This is what the LORD says-the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel-to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: "Kings will see you and rise up, princes will see and bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
 
8 This is what the LORD says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
 
9 to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!' "They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
 
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
 
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up.
 
12 See, they will come from afar-some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan. "
 
13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
 
14 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."
 
15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
 
16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
 
17 Your sons hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.
 
18 Lift up your eyes and look around; all your sons gather and come to you. As surely as I live," declares the LORD, "you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
 
19 "Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
 
20 The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, 'This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.'
 
21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these-where have they come from?' "
 
22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
 
23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed."
 
24 Can plunder be taken from warriors or captives rescued from the fierce ?
 
25 But this is what the LORD says: "Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
 
26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

Revelation 19

1 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
 
2 for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
 
3 And again they shouted: "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever."
 
4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried: "Amen, Hallelujah!"
 
5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying: "Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both small and great!"
 
6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: "Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.
 
7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
 
8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
 
9 Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' " And he added, "These are the true words of God."
 
10 At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
 
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.
 
12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
 
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
 
14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
 
15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
 
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
 
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
 
18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."
 
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army.
 
20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
 
21 The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.