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Psalm 104
[Bible]Psalm 104 is a hymn of praise celebrating God as the one who made the heavens and the earth, the waters, and all living creatures, and who feeds and cares for them in due season. It has 35 verses.
Psalm 97
[Bible]Psalm 97 is a hymn of praise that opens with the declaration "The LORD reigneth." It celebrates the majesty of God, who appears amid fire and lightning, the shame of idol worshipers, and the joy of the righteous.
Psalm 140
[Bible]Psalm 140 is a psalm of lament attributed to David. It pleads for deliverance from those who seek to do harm through wicked and deceitful words, and it closes with confidence that God will maintain the cause of the afflicted.
Psalm 142
[Bible]Psalm 142 is an individual lament that its superscription introduces as a prayer of David "when he was in the cave." Isolated, with no one to care for him, the psalmist confesses that the LORD alone is his refuge and his portion, and he pleads for deliverance.
Psalm 137
[Bible]Psalm 137 is a nine-verse lament in which the people carried captive to Babylon mourn by its rivers as they remember Zion, vow never to forget Jerusalem, and then call for judgment on Edom and Babylon.
Ecclesiastes 5
[Bible]Ecclesiastes 5 opens with counsel to guard one's words in the house of God and to keep one's vows, goes on to speak of the vanity of loving wealth, and closes with the conclusion that enjoying the portion God gives is a gift.
Song of Songs 7
[Bible]Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.
Isaiah 9
[Bible]Isaiah 9 contains the promise that a great light will shine on Galilee in its darkness and that a child will be born to sit on the throne of David, followed by repeated pronouncements of judgment against proud Northern Israel.
Isaiah 13
[Bible]Isaiah 13 opens the oracles against the nations (chapters 13–23), proclaiming that on the Day of the LORD, Babylon will be destroyed by the Medes and left desolate like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 21
[Bible]Isaiah 21 is one of the "burdens" against the nations in the Book of Isaiah. Its seventeen verses contain the burden of the "desert of the sea," which announces the fall of Babylon, followed by brief burdens concerning Dumah (Edom) and Arabia.
Isaiah 64
[Bible]Isaiah 64 concludes the communal prayer of lament that begins in Isaiah 63:7. It asks God to rend the heavens and come down, confesses the people's sin, and lays before Him the desolation of Zion and the burning of the Temple.
Lamentations 3
[Bible]Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.
Lamentations 2
[Bible]The second poem of the Book of Lamentations, which portrays the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple as the result of the LORD's wrath. It depicts starving children and mocking enemies, urges Zion to cry out to the Lord, and closes with a prayer of lament.
Daniel 8
[Bible]Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."
Hosea 14
[Bible]Hosea 14 is the final chapter of the Book of Hosea. It calls Israel to return to the LORD and teaches the people a confession of repentance, then closes the book with God's promise to heal, love, and restore them.
Zechariah 2
[Bible]This chapter contains the vision of the measuring line, the third of Zechariah's night visions. It promises that Jerusalem will flourish without walls, with the LORD dwelling in her midst, and it calls the people remaining in Babylon to return.
Micah 5
[Bible]Micah 5 foretells that, amid the humiliation of a besieged Israel, one who is to be ruler in Israel will come forth from the small town of Bethlehem Ephratah. The chapter also speaks of the future of the remnant of Jacob and of a purification that removes idols and military might.
Jonah 2
[Bible]Jonah 2 is the chapter containing the prayer Jonah offered to the LORD from the belly of the great fish. Jonah thanks God for delivering him from the depths of the sea and promises to pay what he has vowed; at the end of the chapter, the fish vomits Jonah out upon dry land.
Malachi 4
[Bible]Malachi 4 is the final chapter of the Book of Malachi. It describes the day of the LORD, which will burn up the wicked and heal those who fear Him, urges the people to remember the law of Moses, and promises that Elijah will be sent before that day.
Uzziel
[People]Uzziel was a grandson of Levi and the fourth son of Kohath, making him the uncle of Moses and Aaron. His descendants formed the Uzzielites, one of the families of the Kohathite branch of the tribe of Levi.