Contemporary Containment

Psalms 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; 

2 for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. 

3 Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?

4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. 

5 They will receive blessing from the LORDand vindication from God their Savior. 

6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob. 

7 Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. 

8Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 

9 Lift up your heads, you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. 

10 Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD Almighty— he is the King of glory. Exodus 9:1

 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may worship me.” 

2 If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, 

3 the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats. 

4 But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’ ” 

5 The LORD set a time and said, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.” 

6 And the next day the LORD did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died. 

7Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go. Psalms 33:10

 The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. 

11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. 

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance. 

13 From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind;

14 from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth— 

15 he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. 

16 No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. 

17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. 

18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, 

19 to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. 

20 We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. 1 Corinthians 10: 1 

For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 

2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 

3 They all ate the same spiritual food 

4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 

5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 

6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 

7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”