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And the nations were angrya, and thy wrath is come, and the timeb of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give rewardd unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, smalle and great; and shouldest destroy them which ηdestroy the earth.

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Rev. 11:9• ⁹And men of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre. (Rev. 11:9)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

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Rev. 22:12• ¹²Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render to every one as his work shall be. (Rev. 22:12)

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Rev. 19:5• ⁵And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his bondmen, and ye that fear him, small and great. (Rev. 19:5)

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the nations.

Rev. 11:2,9‑10• ²And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; because it has been given up to the nations, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.
⁹And men of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.
¹⁰And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another, because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon the earth. (Rev. 11:2,9‑10)

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Rev. 17:12‑15• ¹²And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have not yet received a kingdom, but receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.
¹³These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the beast.
¹⁴These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him called, and chosen, and faithful.
¹⁵And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (Rev. 17:12‑15)

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Rev. 19:19‑20• ¹⁹And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army.
²⁰And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; (Rev. 19:19‑20)

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Psa. 2:1‑3• ¹Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?
²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:
³Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us! (Psa. 2:1‑3)

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Isa. 34:1‑10• ¹Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.
²For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and his fury against all their armies: he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
³And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
⁴And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered fruit from the fig-tree.
⁵For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.
⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
⁸For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
⁹And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:
¹⁰it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. (Isa. 34:1‑10)

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Isa. 63:1‑6• ¹Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength?--I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
²--Wherefore is redness in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?
³I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all mine apparel.
⁴For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.
⁵And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
⁶And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth. (Isa. 63:1‑6)

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Ezek. 38:9‑23• ⁹And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee.
¹⁰Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall even come to pass in that day that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought;
¹¹and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will come to them that are in quiet, that dwell in safety, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
¹²to seize a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against a people gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the land.
¹³Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to seize a spoil? hast thou gathered thine assemblage to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize a great spoil?
¹⁴Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel dwelleth in safety, shalt thou not know it?
¹⁵And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost north, thou and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great assemblage and a mighty army.
¹⁶And thou shalt come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land--it shall be at the end of days--and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be hallowed in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
¹⁷Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou not he of whom I have spoken in old time through my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days, for many years, that I would bring thee against them?
¹⁸And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, that my fury shall come up in my face;
¹⁹for in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
²⁰so that the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things which creep upon the earth, and all mankind that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence; and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
²¹And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
²²And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, overflowing rain and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.
²³And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 38:9‑23)

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Joel 3:9‑14• ⁹Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
¹⁰Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.
¹¹Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.
¹²Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
¹³Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision. (Joel 3:9‑14)

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Mic. 7:15‑17• ¹⁵--As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt, will I shew them marvellous things.
¹⁶--The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
¹⁷They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their close places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee. (Mic. 7:15‑17)

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Zech. 14:2‑3• ²And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
³And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. (Zech. 14:2‑3)

and thy.

Rev. 6:15‑17• ¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
¹⁶and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and have us hidden from the face of him that sits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
¹⁷because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:15‑17)

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Rev. 14:10• ¹⁰he also shall drink of the wine of the fury of God prepared unmixed in the cup of his wrath, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb. (Rev. 14:10)

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Rev. 15:1,7• ¹And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having seven plagues, the last; for in them the fury of God is completed.
⁷And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls, full of the fury of God, who lives to the ages of ages. (Rev. 15:1,7)

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Rev. 16:1‑21• ¹And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the fury of God upon the earth.
²And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and there came an evil and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped its image.
³And the second poured out his bowl on the sea; and it became blood, as of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
⁴And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood.
⁵And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Thou art righteous, who art and wast, the holy one, that thou hast judged so;
⁶for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.
⁷And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
⁸And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was given to it to burn men with fire.
⁹And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not repent to give him glory.
¹⁰And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues with distress,
¹¹and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their distresses and their sores, and did not repent of their works.
¹²And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.
¹³And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as frogs;
¹⁴for they are the spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them together to the war of that great day of God the Almighty.
¹⁵(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that they may not see his shame.)
¹⁶And he gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armagedon.
¹⁷And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air; and there came out a great voice from the temple of the heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
¹⁸And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, such an earthquake, so great.
¹⁹And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
²⁰And every island fled, and mountains were not found;
²¹and a great hail, as of a talent weight, comes down out of the heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, for the plague of it is exceeding great. (Rev. 16:1‑21)

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Rev. 19:15• ¹⁵And out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. (Rev. 19:15)

and the time.

Rev. 6:10‑11• ¹⁰and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?
¹¹And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled. (Rev. 6:10‑11)

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Rev. 20:4‑5,12,15• ⁴And I saw thrones; and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them; and the souls of those beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God; and those who had not done homage to the beast nor to his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and hand; and they lived and reigned with the Christ a thousand years:
⁵the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years had been completed. This is the first resurrection.
¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
¹⁵And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:4‑5,12,15)

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Isa. 26:19‑21• ¹⁹Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
²⁰Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
²¹For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (Isa. 26:19‑21)

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Dan. 7:9‑10• ⁹I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, and its wheels burning fire.
¹⁰A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. (Dan. 7:9‑10)

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Dan. 12:1‑2• ¹And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since there was a nation until that time. And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that is found written in the book.
²And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:1‑2)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

and that.

Rev. 22:12• ¹²Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render to every one as his work shall be. (Rev. 22:12)

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Matt. 5:12• ¹²Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matt. 5:12)

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2 Thess. 1:5‑7• ⁵a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;
⁶if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you,
⁷and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power, (2 Thess. 1:5‑7)

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Heb. 11:25‑26• ²⁵choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;
²⁶esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense. (Heb. 11:25‑26)

and them.

Rev. 19:5• ⁵And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his bondmen, and ye that fear him, small and great. (Rev. 19:5)

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Psa. 85:9• ⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. (Psa. 85:9)

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Psa. 103:11• ¹¹For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him. (Psa. 103:11)

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Psa. 115:13‑14• ¹³He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and the great.
¹⁴Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children. (Psa. 115:13‑14)

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Psa. 147:11• ¹¹Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness. (Psa. 147:11)

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Eccl. 8:12• ¹²Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him; (Eccl. 8:12)

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Eccl. 12:13• ¹³Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man. (Eccl. 12:13)

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Luke 1:50• ⁵⁰and his mercy is to generations and generations to them that fear him. (Luke 1:50)

shouldest.

Rev. 13:10• ¹⁰If any one leads into captivity, he goes into captivity. If any one shall kill with the sword, he must with the sword be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints. (Rev. 13:10)

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Rev. 18:6,16‑24• ⁶Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double.
¹⁶saying, Woe, woe, the great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls!
¹⁷for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate. And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood afar off,
¹⁸and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city?
¹⁹and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for in one hour she has been made desolate.
²⁰Rejoice over her, heaven, and ye saints and apostles and prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her.
²¹And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all;
²²and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,
²³and light of lamp shall shine no more at all in thee, and voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery have all the nations been deceived.
²⁴And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth. (Rev. 18:6,16‑24)

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Rev. 19:19,21• ¹⁹And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army.
²¹and the rest were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which goes out of his mouth; and all the birds were filled with their flesh. (Rev. 19:19,21)

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Dan. 7:26• ²⁶And the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. (Dan. 7:26)

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Dan. 8:25• ²⁵And through his cunning shall he cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he will magnify himself in his heart, and by prosperity will corrupt many; and he will stand up against the Prince of princes: but he shall be broken without hand. (Dan. 8:25)

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Dan. 11:44‑45• ⁴⁴But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to exterminate, and utterly to destroy many.
⁴⁵And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the mountain of holy beauty; and he shall come to his end, and there shall be none to help him. (Dan. 11:44‑45)

which destroy.

or, which corrupt.

• For the sword of judgment has to clear the way, that the sceptre of righteousness may have free course. (“Lectures on Revelation 11:1-18” by W. Kelly)

• It is a sort of comprehensive view of what would take place from the beginning of the kingdom, when the various corruptions should be judged, and during the millennium up to "the end," when all judgment closes. (“Lectures on Revelation 11:1-18” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servantsh the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroyi those that destroyi the earth.

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Or "bondmen," as ch. 7.3.

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Or "corrupt." See 1 Cor. 3.17. Here it is to "destroy utterly."

W. Kelly Translation

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And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the little and the great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth.