Opening the chapter…
God is the king! I want everyone on the earth to be glad and the people who live on the islands in the oceans to also rejoice about that!
There are very dark clouds around him; he rules completely, justly, and fairly.
He sends fire in front of him, and he completely burns all his enemies in that fire.
All around the world he sends lightning to flash; people on the earth see it, and it causes them to be afraid and to tremble.
The mountains melt like wax in front of God, in front of the one who is the Lord who rules over all the earth.
The angels in heaven proclaim that he acts righteously, and all the peoples see his glory.
Everyone who worships idols should be ashamed; all those who are proud of their false gods should realize that their gods are useless. All those gods will bow down to worship God.
The people of Jerusalem heard that God is just, and they rejoiced; people in the other cities in Judah also rejoiced because God judges and punishes wicked people.
God is the supreme King over all the earth; he has very great power, and none of the other gods has any power.
God loves those who hate what people do that is evil; he protects the lives of his people, and he rescues them when the wicked people try to harm them.
He makes the righteous people truly live; he causes those who are righteous in their inner beings to rejoice.
You righteous people, rejoice about what God has done, and thank him, our holy God!
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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