After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power [belong] to the Lord our God!

Again they said, "Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!"

"Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But [let] those who love Him [be] like the sun When it comes out in full strength." So the land had rest for forty years.

Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah be glad, Because of Your judgments.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;

For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

The righteous see [it] and rejoice, And all iniquity stops its mouth.

Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the wicked perish, [there is] jubilation.

Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done [it!] Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel.

Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.

Therefore behold, the days are coming That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon; Her whole land shall be ashamed, And all her slain shall fall in her midst.

Then the heavens and the earth and all that [is] in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon; For the plunderers shall come to her from the north," says the LORD.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner[stone,]

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

And He Himself gave some [to be] apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

"For true and righteous [are] His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants [shed] by her."

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy." '

[It is] God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples under me;

O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs -- O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!

For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.

"Therefore the wisdom of God also said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they will kill and persecute,'

"that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

"And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

"I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"