a herald announced in a loud voice, "People of all nations, races, and languages!

Anyone who does not bow down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace."

all of them went together to the king to accuse Daniel. They said, "Your Majesty, you signed an order that for the next thirty days anyone who requested anything from any god or from any human being except you, would be thrown into a pit filled with lions." The king replied, "Yes, that is a strict order, a law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed."

"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said to them, "kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live."

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: "Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live."

So on the thirteenth day of the first month Haman called the king's secretaries and dictated a proclamation to be translated into every language and system of writing used in the empire and to be sent to all the rulers, governors, and officials. It was issued in the name of King Xerxes and stamped with his ring.

The contents of the proclamation were to be made public in every province, so that everyone would be prepared when that day came.

You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,

In addition, I have also noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and right ought to be.

You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.

The beast forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, slave and free, to have a mark placed on their right hands or on their foreheads.

No one could buy or sell without this mark, that is, the beast's name or the number that stands for the name.

The prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took her tambourine, and all the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.

Miriam sang for them: "Sing to the LORD, because he has won a glorious victory; he has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea."

Moses said, "That doesn't sound like a shout of victory or a cry of defeat; it's the sound of singing."

When Moses came close enough to the camp to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing, he became furious. There at the foot of the mountain, he threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them.

David commanded the leaders of the Levites to assign various Levites to sing and to play joyful music on harps and cymbals.

So all the Israelites accompanied the Covenant Box up to Jerusalem with shouts of joy, the sound of trumpets, horns, and cymbals, and the music of harps.

Asaph was appointed leader, with Zechariah as his assistant. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed Edom, and Jeiel were to play harps. Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

and two priests, Benaiah and Jahaziel, were to blow trumpets regularly in front of the Covenant Box.

King David and the leaders of the Levites chose the following Levite clans to lead the worship services: Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun. They were to proclaim God's messages, accompanied by the music of harps and cymbals. This is the list of persons chosen to lead the worship, with the type of service that each group performed:

The six sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah. Under the direction of their father they proclaimed God's message, accompanied by the music of harps, and sang praise and thanks to the LORD.

God gave to Heman, the king's prophet, these fourteen sons and also three daughters, as he had promised, in order to give power to Heman.

The king followed the instructions that the LORD had given to King David through Gad, the king's prophet, and through the prophet Nathan; he stationed Levites in the Temple, with harps and cymbals,

Shout for joy to God our defender; sing praise to the God of Jacob!

Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.

How good it is to give thanks to you, O LORD, to sing in your honor, O Most High God,

with the music of stringed instruments and with melody on the harp.

Praise his name with dancing; play drums and harps in praise of him.

The LORD takes pleasure in his people; he honors the humble with victory.

Praise him with trumpets. Praise him with harps and lyres.

Praise him with cymbals. Praise him with loud cymbals.

You like to compose songs, as David did, and play them on harps.