But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

Sinners will be condemned by God and kept apart from God's own people.

The nations advance like rushing waves, but God reprimands them and they retreat, driven away like dust on a mountainside, like straw in a whirlwind.

At evening they cause terror, but by morning they are gone. That is the fate of everyone who plunders our land.

I will make you like a threshing board, with spikes that are new and sharp. You will thresh mountains and destroy them; hills will crumble into dust.

You will toss them in the air; the wind will carry them off, and they will be scattered by the storm. Then you will be happy because I am your God; you will praise me, the holy God of Israel.

And so these people will disappear like morning mist, like the dew that vanishes early in the day. They will be like chaff which the wind blows from the threshing place, like smoke from a chimney.

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

but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.

Soon the wicked will disappear; you may look for them, but you won't find them;

but later I passed by, and he wasn't there; I looked for him, but couldn't find him.

then the wind blows on it, and it is gone--- no one sees it again.

but the dragon was defeated, and he and his angels were not allowed to stay in heaven any longer.

Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more.

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

All nations will remember the LORD. From every part of the world they will turn to him; all races will worship him.

He stops wars all over the world; he breaks bows, destroys spears, and sets shields on fire.

Everyone on earth worships you; they sing praises to you, they sing praises to your name."

God, be merciful to us and bless us; look on us with kindness,

so that the whole world may know your will; so that all nations may know your salvation.

May there be plenty of grain in the land; may the hills be covered with crops, as fruitful as those of Lebanon. May the cities be filled with people, like fields full of grass.

Praise the LORD, the God of Israel! He alone does these wonderful things.

You cleared a place for it to grow; its roots went deep, and it spread out over the whole land.

It covered the hills with its shade; its branches overshadowed the giant cedars.

All the nations that you have created will come and bow down to you; they will praise your greatness.

On Zion, God's sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil. The land will be as full of knowledge of the LORD as the seas are full of water.

When that day comes, fresh water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it to the Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean. It will flow all year long, in the dry season as well as the wet.

Then the LORD will be king over all the earth; everyone will worship him as God and know him by the same name.

For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet.

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The power to rule over the world belongs now to our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!"

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent---that is, the Devil, or Satan---and chained him up for a thousand years.

The angel threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it, so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over. After that he must be set loose for a little while.