Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

[saying], Let us break through Their bonds, and cast away Their yoke from us.

Then shall He speak to them in His anger, and trouble them in His fury.

Arise, O Lord, in Your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which You did command.

Why has the wicked provoked God? For he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

You see [it]; for You observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into Your hands; the poor has been left to You; You are a helper to the orphan.

The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered; He uttered His voice, the earth shook.

The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,

at the voices of many waters; the billows of the sea are wonderful; the Lord is wonderful in high places.

But they were filled with fury, and they were discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus.

"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not done the works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

who trouble the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves.

And they that hate You have boasted in the midst of Your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

Forget not the voice of Your enemies; let the pride of them that hate You continually ascend before You.

For behold, Your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate You have lifted up the head.

[ 40:21] Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your river to stick to your sides, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your river;

and I will gather you, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all wearing breastplates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords;

The Lord swears by His holiness, that behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.

By the way in which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, says the Lord.

And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.

And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Nisrosh his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.