He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge—
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
“And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast; who in your midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants; who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings, Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
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