Isa 61:2-3, Eze 9:4, Joh 16:20-22, Rev 11:3-15 | ESV | STEP | to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor , and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all who mourn ;

2 ^ato proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
^band the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
^cto give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
^dthe oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
^ethat they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, ^fthat he may be glorified. ^{▼▼Or that he may display his beauty}

Ezekiel 9:4

4 And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and ^hput a mark on the foreheads of the men who ⁱsigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

John 16:20-22

20 Truly, truly, I say to you, ^jyou will weep and lament, but ^kthe world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ^lyour sorrow will turn into joy. 21 ^mWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 ⁿSo also you have sorrow now, but ^oI will see you again, and ^pyour hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Revelation of John 11:3-15

3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for ^q1,260 days, ^rclothed in sackcloth.”

4 These are ^sthe two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, ^tfire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, ^uthis is how he is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the power ^vto shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and ^wto strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, ^xthe beast that rises from ^ythe bottomless pit ^{▼▼Or the abyss} ^aawill make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically ^{▼▼Greek spiritually} is called ^acSodom and ^adEgypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and ^aerefuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and ^afthose who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and ^agexchange presents, because these two prophets ^ahhad been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days ^aia breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ^aj“Come up here!” And ^akthey went up to heaven ^alin a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And at that hour there was ^ama great earthquake, and ^ana tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and ^aogave glory to ^apthe God of heaven.

14 ^aqThe second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

15 Then ^arthe seventh angel blew his trumpet, and ^asthere were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^at“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^auhis Christ, and ^avhe shall reign forever and ever.”