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• Genesis 6

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  Genesis 6 is the chapter in which, as human wickedness fills the earth, God resolves to judge the world by a flood and commands Noah, who has found grace, to build an ark. The account of Noah's Flood begins here.

• Job 25

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  Job 25 contains the third and final speech of Job's friend Bildad. It exalts God's power and majesty and asserts that no human being can be righteous or pure before God. At six verses, it is the shortest speech in the dialogues of the Book of Job.

• Ezekiel 22

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  Ezekiel 22 is a prophecy that calls Jerusalem "the bloody city," indicts its sins one by one, and announces the coming judgment through the image of dross in a furnace and the corruption of the entire leadership.

• Babylon the Great

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  Babylon the Great is a symbolic city that appears in Revelation 14–18. It represents worldly power that opposes God and the judgment that falls upon that power.

• Psalm 7

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  Psalm 7 is a lament attributed to David in which the pursued psalmist declares his innocence before God in the manner of an oath, asks God, the righteous Judge, to render judgment, and vows to give praise.

• Psalm 10

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  Psalm 10 is a lament over the reality that the wicked oppress the poor and powerless while God seems far away, and a plea for God to arise and judge on behalf of the fatherless and the oppressed.

• Psalm 50

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  Psalm 50 bears the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." In it God, acting as judge, summons his people, rebukes merely formal sacrifice and hypocritical living, and calls for the sacrifice of thanksgiving and upright conduct.

• Psalm 98

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  Psalm 98 is a nine-verse hymn of praise that summons the whole earth, the sea, and even the hills to celebrate with a new song the salvation the LORD has wrought. It closes in expectation of the LORD as King, who comes to judge the world with righteousness and equity.

• Psalm 96

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  Psalm 96 is a hymn of praise that calls all the earth and all peoples to sing a new song to the LORD. It proclaims that the LORD reigns as King and is coming to judge the world with righteousness and truth.

• Psalm 99

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  Psalm 99 is a hymn of praise celebrating the reign of the LORD as King. A refrain declaring his holiness occurs three times, and the psalm exalts the God who answered the prayers of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel and who forgave sin.

• Psalm 26

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  Psalm 26 is a twelve-verse prayer bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." The psalmist declares his integrity, asks God to examine and judge him, and pleads not to perish together with the wicked.

• Wisdom

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  In the Bible, wisdom (Hebrew chokmah) is the ability to judge rightly and live well, an ability that begins with the fear of God. The New Testament connects wisdom with Christ and with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• Isaiah 35

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  Isaiah 35 is a prophetic poem presenting a vision of restoration in which the parched wilderness blossoms, those with disabilities are healed, and the people ransomed by the LORD return to Zion singing as they travel along "the way of holiness."

• Book of Revelation

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  The Book of Revelation is the last book of the New Testament. Written in the form of apocalyptic literature, it records the visions given to John concerning the second coming of Christ and the final victory of God. It is often referred to simply as Revelation.

• Book of Ruth

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  The Book of Ruth is the eighth book of the Old Testament. It tells the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman who follows her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem, marries Boaz, and becomes the great-grandmother of David.

• Book of Job

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  A book of the Old Testament belonging to the wisdom literature. It tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers for reasons unknown to him, debates with his friends, and encounters God, and it addresses the question of why the righteous suffer.

• Book of Life

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  The Book of Life is the heavenly register in which, according to Scripture, God records the names of those who will be saved. The concept begins with "thy book" in the Old Testament and culminates in "the Lamb's book of life" in Revelation.

• Book of Enoch

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  The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic work transmitted under the name of Enoch, the figure in Genesis. One of its passages is quoted in Jude 1:14-15, but neither Protestants nor Catholics regard it as canonical.

• Book of Baruch

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  The Book of Baruch is a work attributed to Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches include it in the canon (in Catholic terminology, as a deuterocanonical book), while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha and do not include it in the Bible.

• Book of Jasher

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  The Book of Jasher is an ancient Israelite record cited in the Old Testament. It is named in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18, and the original has not survived.