You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm.

Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.

Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

who serve in the Lord’s temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.

The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

The Lord takes his position to judge; he stands up to pass sentence on his people.

Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it.

They were absolutely terrified and said, “Look, two kings could not stop him! How can we?”

So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain.

When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

“In those times many will oppose the king of the south. Those who are violent among your own people will rise up in confirmation of the vision, but they will falter.

Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. They will have no strength to prevail.

Next I saw Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

“You are to make the frames for the tabernacle out of acacia wood as uprights.

He made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.

The king said, “Turn aside and take your place here.” So he turned aside and waited.