Why do the nations rage, and the peoples devise a vain thing?

Let us break and tear away their bonds, and cast away their cords from us.

Then He shall speak to them in His anger, and terrify them in His wrath.

Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and arouse Yourself for me to the judgment which You have commanded.

Why have the wicked spurned God? He has said in his heart, You will not investigate.

But You have seen it, for You pay attention to trouble and provocation; to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

The streams have lifted up, O Jehovah, the streams have lifted up their sound; the streams lift up their waves.

Jehovah on high is mightier than the sound of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea.

But they were filled with madness, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

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

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

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

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

who stills the noise of the sea, the roar of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.

Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; they set up their banners for signs.

Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the roar of those who rise up against You continually increases.

For lo, Your enemies roar; and those who hate You have lifted up their head.

Can you put a reed rope through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

But I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.

And I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.

The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days are coming that He will carry you away with meat hooks, and the last of you with fishhooks.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return; and he shall not come into this city, says Jehovah.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Now it came to pass, as he was bowing down in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.