Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise, and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.

人的忿怒要成全你的荣美；人的余怒，你要禁止。

人的愤怒终必称谢你，你要以人的余怒束腰。

人的愤怒终必称谢你，你要以人的余怒束腰。

你向人类发怒为你带来荣耀，你准备发尽你的烈怒。

人的忿怒必使你得称赞，人的余怒必成为你的装饰。

人的怒火，也会使你得称赞；怒火后的余剩之民，你也会用来束腰。

人的忿怒要成全你的榮美；人的餘怒，你要禁止。

人的憤怒終必稱謝你，你要以人的餘怒束腰。

人的憤怒終必稱謝你，你要以人的餘怒束腰。

你向人類發怒為你帶來榮耀，你準備發盡你的烈怒。

人的忿怒必使你得稱讚，人的餘怒必成為你的裝飾。

人的烈怒終必稱讚你；你必用人的餘怒去束腰。

人的怒火，也會使你得稱讚；你也會以餘怒束腰。

世人忿怒、誠使爾得頌美、彼之餘怒、爾則禁之兮、

敵人銜憾、上帝因之顯榮、惟彼上帝、息敵人之餘怒兮、

主因人之怒而顯榮美、其餘之怒、主悉禁止、

地上行讞鞫。良善蒙恩撫。

Your anger against sinners brings you praise. Those who live through your anger gather to worship you.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

Human defiance only enhances your glory, for you use it as a weapon.

Even human wrath will praise you; you will clothe yourself with the wrath that remains.

For the wrath of mankind shall praise You; You will encircle Yourself with a remnant of wrath.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.

Even human wrath will praise You; You will clothe Yourself with their remaining wrath.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Certainly your angry judgment upon men will bring you praise; you reveal your anger in full measure.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usualand commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace.

For Scripture says to Pharaoh:“ I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Judah said to his brothers,“ What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

The enemy boasted,‘ I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.Who among the gods is like you, Lord? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up.“ Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.Then the angel said to him,“ Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so.“ Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.Then Peter came to himself and said,“ Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed,“ Peter is at the door!”“ You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said,“ It must be his angel.”But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison.“ Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.In the morning, there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross- examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly.”

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.“ Get up,” he said,“ take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet:“ Out of Egypt I called my son.”When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.

But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.“ Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.“ Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”

who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

“ If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one.’Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.