Psalms 44 Cross References - LITV

¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the Sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old. ² You drove out nations with Your hand and planted them. You brought evil on peoples and expelled them. ³ For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your face, because You favored them. ⁴ You are He, my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob. ⁵ Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. ⁶ For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me. ⁷ But You have saved us from our adversaries and have put to shame those who hate us. ⁸ We boast in God all the day long; and we praise Your name forever. Selah. ⁹ Now You have cast us off and have shamed us. And You do not go forth with our armies. ¹⁰ You make us turn back from the oppressor; yea, our haters plunder for themselves. ¹¹ You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations. ¹² For no gain You have sold Your people, and You are not increased by their price. ¹³ You made us a disgrace to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those around us. ¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. ¹⁵ My humiliation is before me all the day; yea, the shame of my face covers me, ¹⁶ because of the slanderer's voice and the blasphemer, before the face of the enemy and avenger. ¹⁷ All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely with Your covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not swerved from Your way, ¹⁹ though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us over with the death-shade. ²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god, ²¹ shall not God search out this? For He knows the secrets of the heart. ²² Yea, for Your sake we are slain all the day long; we are counted as sheep of slaughter. ²³ Be aroused! Why do You sleep, O God? Awake! Do not cast us off forever. ²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and distress? ²⁵ For our soul bows down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth. ²⁶ Arise for our help and redeem us for the sake of Your mercy.

²⁴ And you shall observe this word for an ordinance for you, and for your sons forever. ²⁵ And it shall be, when you come into the land which Jehovah shall give to you, as He has spoken, you shall observe this service. ²⁶ And it shall be, when your sons say to you, What is this service to you? ²⁷ Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.

¹⁴ And it shall be when your son asks you on the morrow, saying, What is this? You shall say to him, Jehovah brought us out from Egypt by the might of His hand, from the house of slaves. ¹⁵ And it happened when Pharaoh hardened himself against sending us away, Jehovah killed every first-born one in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of men even to the first-born of animals. On account of this I sacrifice to Jehovah every one of the males opening the womb, and I redeem every first-born of my sons.

¹⁴ therefore, it is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah: Waheb in Suphah, the torrents of Arnon, ¹⁵ and the slope of the torrent-beds that turn down toward the site of Ar, and lean on the border of Moab. ¹⁶ And from there they went to Beer; that is the well of which Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Gather the people and I will give water to them.

²⁷ On account of this the parable speakers say, Come to Heshbon! Let the city of Sihon be built and established! ²⁸ For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it has consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. ³⁰ We have cast them down; Heshbon has perished, even to Dibon; and we have ravaged even to Nophah, which is to Medeba.

²⁰ When your son asks you hereafter, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Jehovah your God has commanded you?

¹³ And Gideon said to Him, Oh my Lord, if Jehovah is with us, then why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders which our fathers recounted to us, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up out of Egypt? And now Jehovah has left us, and has given us into the hands of Midian.

⁸ For, I beg you, ask of the former generation, and prepare to the search of their fathers; ⁹ for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing because our days on earth are a shadow.

¹⁷ I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen; ¹⁸ that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers; ¹⁹ to them alone the land was given; and no alien passed among them.

³¹ they shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born; for He has done it.

¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the sons of Korah. As the deer pants after the channels of water, so my soul pants after You, O God.

¹⁸ And now that I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not leave me until I have manifested Your strength to the generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

⁵ I thought upon the days of old, the years of bygone ages.

³ those which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their sons; to declare to the coming generation the praises of Jehovah; yea, His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. ⁵ For he raised a testimony in Jacob, and set a law in Israel; which he commanded our fathers, to teach them to their sons; ⁶ So that a coming generation may know; sons shall be born; they shall rise up and tell their sons,

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah; call on His name; make His deeds known among the peoples. ² Sing to Him; sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

¹⁹ The living, the living is the one thanking You; as I do today. The father makes known Your truth to his sons.

³ Tell your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

¹⁷ You shall bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place You have made for Your dwelling place, O Jehovah; the sanctuary which Your hands have prepared, O Lord.

¹⁹ For the horses oh Pharaoh went in with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea on them; and the sons of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

²⁸ And I will send hornets before you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

¹¹ Take heed for yourself what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am about to drive out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

³² And they sent out an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land into which we passed, to spy it out, is a land eating up its inhabitants. And all the people we saw in its midst were men of stature.

¹ When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land to which you are going, to possess it, and He casts out many nations from before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations larger and mightier than you;

¹⁰ And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you. And He shall certainly expel from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

¹¹ And it happened, as they fled from the face of Israel, they were in the descent of Bethhoron, even Jehovah cast great stones on them out of the heavens, to Azekah; and they died. The many who died by the hailstones were more than the sons of Israel had killed by the sword.

⁴² And Joshua captured all these kings in their land at one time, for Jehovah the God of Israel fought for Israel.

²³ And Joshua took the whole of the land, according to all that Jehovah had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

⁴³ And Jehovah gave to Israel all the land which He swore to give to their fathers. And they possessed it, and lived in it.

¹² And I sent the hornet before you, and it cast them out before you, two kings of the Amorite, not by the sword nor by your how.

⁶ And the hand of Jehovah was heavy on the men of Ashdod. And He wasted them, and struck them with hemorrhoids, Ashdod and its borders. ⁷ And the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and said, The ark of God of Israel shall not remain with us, for His hand has been hard on us, and on our god Dagon.

¹⁰ And I will designate a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be made to tremble any more. Nor shall the sons of evil afflict them again, as at the first,

²² And You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and divided them to corners. And they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. ²³ You also multiplied their sons like the stars of the heavens and brought them into the land which You had promised to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it. ²⁴ And the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled the people of the land before them, the Canaanites. And You gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land to do with them as they desired. ²⁵ And they took strong cities and a rich land, and occupied houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards and oliveyards and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and lived luxuriously in Your great goodness. ²⁶ But they were disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them to You. And they worked great blasphemies. ²⁷ And You gave them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. And in the time of their distress, they cried to You; and You heard from Heaven. And according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

⁵⁵ And He cast out the nations before them; and by a line He made a possession fall to them; and He made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents.

⁸ You have led a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and have planted it. ⁹ You cleared before it, and You have rooted its roots; and it has filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with its shadow; and its boughs were as the cedars of God. ¹¹ It was sending its boughs out to the sea, and its branches to the River.

⁴⁴ And He gave to them the lands of the nations; and they inherited the labor of the peoples;

¹⁰ who struck great nations, and killed mighty kings; ¹¹ Sihon king Of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. ¹² And He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.

¹⁷ to Him who struck great kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁸ and killed majestic kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁹ Sihon, king of the Amorites; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁰ and Og, the king of Bashan; for His mercy endures forever; ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for His mercy endures forever; ²² an inheritance to His servant Israel; for His mercy endures forever;

¹⁶ Terrors and dread fell on them; by the greatness of Your arm; they are silent as a stone, until Your people pass through, O Jehovah, until pass through the people whom You have bought.

⁸ If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and will give it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey.

³⁷ And because He loved your fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought you out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt, ³⁸ in order to drive out nations greater and mightier than you from before you, to bring you in, to give their land for an inheritance, as it is this day;

⁷ Jehovah did not set His love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all peoples. ⁸ But because Jehovah loved you, and because He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Jehovah has caused you to go out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

¹⁷ that you not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives to you power to get wealth; that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as this day.

¹⁵ Only, Jehovah has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their seed after them, on you out of all the peoples, as today.

²² For Jehovah will not abandon His people, for the sake of His great name. For Jehovah undertakes to make you a people for Himself.

⁶ Many are saying, Who will show us any good? O Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

⁷ Set out your wonderful loving-kindness by Your right hand, O Savior of those who trust in You, from those rising against them .

⁶ Now I know that Jehovah saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy Heaven with the saving strengths of His right hand.

⁵ Oh my soul, why are you cast down and moan within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation of His presence.

¹¹ O my soul, why are you cast down? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God, for I yet thank Him for the salvation of my face and my God.

¹¹ Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? From out of Your bosom, consume them .

¹⁵ You have redeemed Your people with Your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ It is burned with fire, cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your face.

¹² who led them by Moses' right hand, with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make for Him an everlasting name?

⁶ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of hosts.

² I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob, ³ and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac, ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling, ¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23 ¹³ even as it has been written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." Mal. 1:2, 3 ¹⁴ What then shall we say? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! ¹⁵ For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will pity whomever I will pity." Ex. 33:19

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us;

⁸ Jehovah will command His loving-kindness by day, and His song shall be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my life.

¹² For God is my King of old, who works salvation in the midst of the land.

¹⁸ For Jehovah is our shield, yea, the Holy One of Israel our King.

² Let Israel rejoice in His Makers; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their Kings.

²² For Jehovah is our judge; Jehovah is our lawgiver; Jehovah is our king; He will save us.

²⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet, and come out of him. ²⁶ And the unclean spirit convulsing him, and crying out with a loud voice, he came out of him.

³¹ And coming near, He raised her up, holding her hand. And the fever left her instantly, and she served them.

⁴¹ And being moved with pity, reaching out the hand, Jesus touched him, and said to him, I am willing. Be made clean!

²⁵ And seeing that a crowd is running together, Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, Come out from him, and you may no more go into him!

¹⁷ His glory is as the first-born of his ox, and the horns of the wild ox are his horns; with them he shall butt the peoples together to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

¹¹ And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself. And he said, So says Jehovah, With these you shall push the Syrians until you have consumed them.

³⁹ And You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have bowed under me those rising against me. ⁴⁰ And you have given me the neck of my enemies, that I might cut off my haters. ⁴¹ They cried, but no one is there to save; to Jehovah, but He did not answer them. ⁴² And I crushed them like the dust before the wind; I emptied them out like the mire of the streets.

¹² Through God we shall do mighty things; for He shall tread on our foes.

¹³ You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent You shall trample under foot.

¹³ In God we shall do mighty things, for He shall trample our foes.

¹⁰ All the nations surround me; but surely I will destroy them in the name of Jehovah. ¹¹ They surround me; yea, they surround me; I surely will destroy them in the name of Jehovah. ¹² they surround me like bees; they are quenched like the fire of thorns; for surely I will cut them off in the name of Jehovah. ¹³ Pushing, you pushed me to fall; but Jehovah helped me.

¹⁴ Fear not, worm of Jacob, men of Israel; I will help you; states Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ Behold! I have made you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh mountains and beat them small, and shall make hills like the chaff. ¹⁶ You shall winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; and the tempest will scatter them. And you shall rejoice in Jehovah; you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

⁴ I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, so that no beasts could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will and became great.

⁵ And they shall be like mighty ones who trample the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because Jehovah is with them, and they shall make the riders of horses ashamed.

²⁰ And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ, the One giving me power.

⁴⁷ And all this company shall know that Jehovah does not save by sword and by spear, but that the battle belongs to Jehovah, and He has given you into our hand.

⁷ These trust in chariots, and these in horses but we will make mention in the name of Jehovah our God.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by great force; a mighty man is not saved by great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for safety; nor does he save by his great strength.

⁷ And I will have mercy on the house of Judah and will save them by Jehovah their God. And I will not save them by bow or by sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.

⁵ No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor will I forsake you.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not be afraid of them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you. ⁹ And Joshua came to them suddenly (he had traveled all night from Gilgal) ¹⁰ and Jehovah troubled them before Israel, and struck them with a great blow at Gibeon, and He pursued by the way of the ascent of Bethhoron, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.

⁶ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Do not fear before them, for about this time tomorrow I will give all of them up wounded before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

⁹ And Jehovah has expelled from before you great and mighty nations. As for you no one has stood before you until today. ¹⁰ One man of you shall pursue a thousand; for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He has spoken to you.

¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up judges to them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and rescued them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groaning before their oppressors, and those that crushed them.

⁴ And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people are still too many. Bring them down to the water, and I will refine them for you there. And it shall be, he of whom I say to you, this one shall go with you, he shall go with you. And any of whom I shall say to you, This one shall not go with you, he shall not go. ⁵ And he brought the people down to the water. And Jehovah said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set him apart. And everyone who bows on his knees to drink, set apart . ⁶ And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men. And all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. ⁷ And Jehovah said to Gideon, I will deliver you by the three hundred men who lapped, and shall give Midian into your hand. And all the people shall go, each to his place. ⁸ And the sons of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry to Jehovah our God for us, that He save us out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁹ And Samuel took a milk lamb and offered a whole burnt offering to Jehovah. And Samuel cried to Jehovah for Israel. And Jehovah answered him. ¹⁰ And it happened as Samuel offered up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. And Jehovah thundered with a great noise on that day, on the Philistines, and troubled them. And they were stricken before Israel. ¹¹ And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them as far as below Beth-car. ¹² And Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Jehovah has helped us until now.

⁶ And Jonathan said to the young man bearing his weapons, Come, we shall cross over to the fort of these uncircumcised ones. It may be Jehovah will work for us, for there is no hindrance to Jehovah, to save by many or by few. ⁷ And his armorbearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself. Behold, I am with you according to your heart. ⁸ And Jonathan said, Behold, we will cross over to the men and show ourselves to them. ⁹ If they say this to us, Stand still until we reach you, then we will stand in our place and not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say this, Come up to us, then we will go up, for Jehovah has given them into our hand; and this will be the sign for us.

¹⁴ Let be ashamed and humbled together those seeking my soul, to destroy it; let those delighting in my evil be driven back and disgraced.

⁵ There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of the one who besieges you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.

¹ A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God do not keep silence to Yourself; do not be speechless; yea, do not be still, O God. ² For lo, Your enemies are roaring; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. ³ They take shrewd counsel against Your people; they plot against Your hidden ones. ⁴ They have said, Come, and we will cut them off from being a nation; and, The name of Israel will not be recalled again. ⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You; ⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Also Assyria has joined with them; they were an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon. ¹⁰ At Endor they were destroyed; they became dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles as Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; ¹² who said, Let us take possession of God's pastures for ourselves. ¹³ O my God, make them as whirling dust, as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame and they will seek Your name, O Jehovah. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and terrified for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish. ¹⁸ And let them know Your name is Jehovah, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth.

¹⁸ I will clothe his enemies with shame; but his crown shall shine upon him.

²⁴ and has rescued us from our enemies; for His mercy endures forever;

⁷ O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of armor.

¹⁰ You who gives salvation to kings, who delivers His servant David from the evil sword.

¹² So my glory shall praise You, and not be quiet; O Jehovah, my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

² My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah; the humble shall hear and be glad.

¹ Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to Your name give glory; for Your mercy; because of Your truth. ² Why do the nations say, Where is their God now? ³ But our God is in Heaven; He has done all that He has pleased. ⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of man's hands; ⁵ they have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ⁶ they have ears, but they do not hear; they have a nose, but they do not smell; ⁷ their hands do not feel; their feet do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. ⁸ The ones who make them are like them, and everyone trusting in them. ⁹ O Israel, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. ¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. ¹¹ You who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. ¹² Jehovah remembers us; He will bless; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron; ¹³ He will bless those who fear Jehovah, the small and the great. ¹⁴ Jehovah will add on to you; on you and on your sons. ¹⁵ You are blessed to Jehovah, He who makes heavens and earth. ¹⁶ The heavens; the heavens are Jehovah's, but He has given the earth to the sons of men. ¹⁷ The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor all those who go down into silence; ¹⁸ but we will bless Jehovah, from now on and forever. Praise Jehovah!

²⁵ In Jehovah all of the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

²⁴ But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice and righteousness in the earth; for I delight in these, says Jehovah.

¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and boast in God,

²⁹ so that no flesh might glory in His presence. ³⁰ But of Him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ³¹ so that even as it has been written, "He that glories, let him glory in" the "Lord." Jer. 9:24

² For You are the God of my strength. Why have You cast me off? Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses?

¹ To the chief musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim, and with Aram-zobah; when Joab returned, and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God! You cast us off; You broke us; You who were angry; take us back.

¹⁰ Have not You, O God, cast us aside? And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

¹ A Lesson, of Asaph. O God, have You cast us off forever; will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

¹² Why have You broken down its walls, so that it is plucked by all who pass by the way? ¹³ A boar out of the forest wastes it, and the beast of the field feeds on it.

¹⁴ O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul; why do You hide Your face from me?

³⁸ But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed. ³⁹ You have turned away from the covenant of your servant; You have defiled his crown on the ground. ⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. ⁴¹ All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors. ⁴² You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice. ⁴³ And you have turned back the edge of his sword, and have not held him up in battle. ⁴⁴ You have made his glory to cease and have hurled his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah.

¹¹ O God, have You not cast us off? And, O God, will You not go out with our armies?

²⁴ Have you not observed what these people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah has chosen, He has also rejected them? And they despise My people, no more to be a nation before them. ²⁵ So says Jehovah, If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and earth, ²⁶ then I also will reject the seed of Jacob, and My servant David, not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity and have pity on them.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever. ³² For though He causes grief, He will have pity according to His many kindnesses.

¹ I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² "God did not thrust away His people" whom He foreknew. Psa. 94:14 Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying, ³ Lord, "they killed Your prophets," "and they dug down Your altars," "and only I am left, and they seek my life." 1 Kg. 19:10 ⁴ But what does the Divine answer say to him, "I reserved to Myself seven thousand men who did not bow a knee to Baal." 1 Kg. 19:18 ⁵ So then, also in the present time a remnant according to election of grace has come into being. Isa. 29:10, Deut. 29:4 ⁶ But if by grace, no longer is it of works; else grace no longer becomes grace. But if of works, it is no longer grace; else work is no longer work.

¹⁴ And if you will not listen to Me, and do not do all these commands;

¹⁷ And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; and those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee, and there will be no one pursuing you.

³⁶ And those who are left of you, I shall also bring a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when no one pursues. ³⁷ And they shall stumble upon one another, as if it were before the sword, when no one pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

²⁵ Jehovah shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁸ Oh Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned its back before its enemies?

¹² And the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; they have turned the back before their enemies because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again if you do not destroy the cursed things from among you.

¹⁷ And he bearing the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines; and also there has been a great slaughter among the people. And also your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas. And the ark of God has been taken.

¹ And the Philistines were fighting against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from the face of the Philistines, and they fell down wounded in Mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed Saul and his sons. And the Philistines struck Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. ³ And the battle went hard against Saul. And the archers, men with the bow, found him and he was sorely wounded by the archers. ⁴ And Saul said to his armorbearer, Draw your sword and thrust it through me, lest come these uncircumcised ones and thrust it through me and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. ⁵ And his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, and he also fell on his sword and died with him. ⁶ And Saul and three of his sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men died together on that day. ⁷ And the men of Israel who were beyond the valley, and who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled, and that Saul and his sons had died. And they abandoned the cities and fled. And the Philistines came in and lived in them.

⁴¹ All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors.

⁶ I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to plunder, and to strip off spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

¹⁴ And my hand has found the riches of the people. Like a nest, I also have gathered all the earth, as forsaken eggs are gathered. And there was not one moving a wing, or opening a mouth, or one chirping.

¹³ Your wealth and your treasures I will give for prey, not for price, but for all your sins, even in all your borders.

⁸ For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim violence and ruin; for the word of Jehovah has been to me a reproach and derision all the day.

²⁷ And Jehovah shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations to which Jehovah shall lead you away.

⁶⁴ And Jehovah shall scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other, and you shall serve other gods there, wood and stone, which you have not known, nor your fathers.

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and removed Israel to Assyria, and made them live in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁴ Have all evildoers not known, eating My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

²⁷ to make their seed fall also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

¹¹ And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Persia, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea. ¹² And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel, and gather those dispersed from Judah, from the four wings of the earth.

³ But You know me, O Jehovah. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them to the day of slaughter.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands, there where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to live in safety.

¹² As a shepherd seeks his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud and thick cloud.

²⁴ And they will fall by the mouth of the sword and will be led captive to all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

³⁶ Even as it has been written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day; we are counted as sheep of slaughter." Psa. 44:22

³⁰ How could one chase a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, if it were not their Rock that sold them, and Jehovah had shut them up?

¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel, and He gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, and they were not able to stand before their enemies any longer.

⁸ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He gave them over into the hand of Chushanrishathaim, and the sons of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ Likewise, my brothers and my servants are lending them silver and grain. I beg you, let us leave off this interest. ¹¹ I beg you, even today give back to them their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses; also the hundredth part of their silver, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you have taken from them. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and will ask nothing from them. So we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this word.

¹ So says Jehovah, Where is the scroll of your mother's divorce whom I have put away? Or who of My creditors that I have sold you to him? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your trespasses.

³ For so says Jehovah: You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed with silver. ⁴ For so says the Lord Jehovah: My people went down to Egypt at the first, to reside there, and without cause Assyria oppressed him.

¹³ and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine meal, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.

³⁷ And you shall be an astonishment, a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead you.

⁴ We have become a shame to our neighbors a scorn and a mockery to those who are around us.

⁶ You make us a strife for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh to themselves.

⁵¹ with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.

³ Be gracious to us, O Jehovah; be gracious to us! For we are exceedingly filled with scorn. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled for itself with the contempt of those who are at ease, the scorn of the proud.

⁹ I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

²⁷ For was not Israel a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For ever since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

¹⁹ And I scattered them among the nations, and they were sown among the lands; I judged them by their way and by their doings. ²⁰ And when they entered into the nations, there where they went, they even profaned My holy name, by saying to them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land. ²¹ But I had pity for My holy name which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, there where they went. ²² Therefore, say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but only for My holy name which you profaned among the nations, there where you went. ²³ And I will sanctify My great name which was profaned among the nations, which you profaned among them. And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, declares the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified in you in their eyes.

⁷ then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

²¹ this is the word that Jehovah spoke concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind you.

²⁰ then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations.

⁴ I also could speak as you. If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could bind words against you and shake at you with my head.

⁶ He has also set me as a byword of the peoples, and I am a spitting to the faces.

⁷ All who see Me scornfully laugh at me; they open the lip; they shake the head, saying,

²⁵ And I have become a reproach to them; they looked at me; they shook their heads.

²² this is the word Jehovah has spoken about him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughing you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken the head behind you.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth? ¹⁶ All your haters have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed up. Surely this is the day for which we waited; we have found; we have seen. ¹⁷ Jehovah has done what He purposed; He fulfilled His word which He commanded from days of antiquity. He has dashed and not pitied. And He made the hater to rejoice over you; He raised the horn of your foes.

⁷ And Joshua said, Oh Lord Jehovah, why have You at all caused this people to cross over the Jordan to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? And, Oh that we have been willing, and that we had dwelt beyond the Jordan! ⁸ Oh Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned its back before its enemies? ⁹ And the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall come around against us, and shall cut off our name out of the earth. And what shall You do for Your great name?

²¹ And Jehovah sent an angel, and cut off every mighty one of valor, both the leader and the ruler, in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his land. And he entered the house of his god, and those from his bowels caused him to fall there by the sword.

⁶ And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, O my God. For our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown to the heavens.

⁷ Because I suffered reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

¹³ Let them be ashamed; let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed; let them be covered with reproach, and let those seeking evil for me be dishonored;

⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah.

²⁵ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us. For we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

⁵¹ We have turned pale because we have heard reproach, dishonor has covered our faces. For foreigners have come into the holy places of the house of Jehovah.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, You have ordained strength, because of Your tormenters, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

¹⁰ O God, until when shall the enemy defame You ? Shall the enemy scorn Your name forever?

¹⁸ Remember this: the enemy has defamed, O Jehovah; and a foolish people have scorned Your name.

²² Arise, O God, contend for Your cause; remember Your reproach from the fool all the day. ²³ Do not forget the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those rising up against You is going up continually.

¹² And reward our neighbors sevenfold, Give into their bosom their curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.

³ And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and reproach, and contempt. For sons have come to the breach and there is no strength to give birth. ⁴ It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and rebuke against the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.

¹⁷ Bow down Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear. Open Your eye, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent, to reproach the living God.

²³ Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you lifted your voice, and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! ²⁴ By your servants, you have mocked the Lord, and said, By my many chariots I have come up to the tops of mountains, the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

¹² and you shall be on guard that you not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.

¹⁴ then it rises up into your heart, and you forget Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves;

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god,

⁷ so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.

⁵⁷ but they turned back and betrayed, like their fathers; they veered aside like a deceitful bow.

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you did not remember the Rock of your strength. On account of this you shall plant pleasing plants, and shall sow it a foreign shoot.

³² Can a virgin forget her finery, a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

³² not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt (which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah).

⁵⁹ For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God that we might turn from our perversities and understand Your truth.

⁵ For David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

¹¹ My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned; ¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

²⁷ for so they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways so as

⁵¹ The proud have scorned me utterly; I have not veered from Your law.

¹⁵⁷ My persecutors and enemies are many; I do not turn from Your testimonies.

⁵ And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

¹⁰ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words. And they went after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.

⁶ and those drawing back from after Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor asked of Him.

³² Remember Lot's wife.

⁵⁸ So that, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses how holily and righteously and blamelessly we were to you, those believing;

⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death seize upon it. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that blackens the day terrify it.

²¹ before I go; and I shall not return; to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death; ²² a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, and without any order; even the shining is as darkness.

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁸ I am exceedingly benumbed and crushed. I howl from the groanings of my heart.

⁸ Cause me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones You have crushed may rejoice.

¹ To the chief musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim, and with Aram-zobah; when Joab returned, and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God! You cast us off; You broke us; You who were angry; take us back. ² You made the earth tremble; You tore it; heal its breaks, for it is shaking. ³ You have shown Your people hardship; You made us drink the wine of trembling.

¹³ You broke the sea by Your strength; You burst the heads of sea-monsters in the waters. ¹⁴ You cracked open the heads of leviathan; You gave him to be food for the people of the wilderness.

¹ In that day Jehovah shall visit the sea monster, the darting serpent, with His great and fierce and strong sword; even on the sea monster, the twisting serpent; and He shall slay the monster that is in the sea.

¹³ And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches. ¹⁴ The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl shall also settle there, and find a place of rest for herself.

⁷ And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of waters, in the home of jackals, in its lair, and a place for the reed and rush.

¹⁷ And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.

³ Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is mine, and I, even I, have made it.

¹⁶ the people sitting in the darkness saw a great Light; and to those sitting in the region and shadow of death, Light sprang up to them." Isa. 9:1, 2

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called Devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

² And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as a lion's mouth. And the dragon gave its power to it, and its throne, and great authority.

¹¹ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon. ¹² And it executes all the authority of the first beast before it. And it causes that the earth and those dwelling in it should worship the first beast, of which was healed its deadly wound. ¹³ And it does great signs, that even fire it causes to come down out of the heaven onto the earth before men.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his bowl onto the throne of the beast. And its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues from the pain.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, As I go out of the city I will spread out my palms to Jehovah. The thunder will cease, and the hail will not still be, so that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.

¹⁴ You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

²² And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah, across from the assembly of Israel, and spread his palms toward the heavens;

¹³ If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him;

⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or my foot has hurried to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands, ⁸ let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her. ¹¹ For that would be an evil scheme, and is iniquity for judges. ¹² For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root up all my gain. ¹³ If I despised the cause of my male slave or my slave-girl when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the belly make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld from the desire of the poor, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her. ¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow. ²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him; ³⁰ also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; ³¹ if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat, ³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler; ³³ if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ then let me fear before a great multitude, and let the scorn of families frighten me and I will be silent, and not go out the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! See, my mark! Let the Almighty answer me, and let my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me. ³⁷ I would tell Him the number of my steps. Like a prince I would go near Him. ³⁸ If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire; ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

³ O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands: ⁴ if I have repaid evil to my friend or I have plundered my vexer without cause, ⁵ let the enemy pursue and overtake my soul; yea, trample down my life to earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely with Your covenant.

³¹ Let nobles be brought out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall run up her hands to God.

¹¹ And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them;

⁹ There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship a foreign god.

²² Jehovah is the God of gods; Jehovah is the God of gods! He knows, and Israel shall know, if it is in rebellion, and if it is in treachery against Jehovah, you shall not save us alive today. ²³ If we built an altar for ourselves to turn away from following after Jehovah, or to sacrifice on it burnt offering and food offering, or to offer on it sacrifices of peace, may Jehovah Himself require it .

⁴ Does He not see my ways and count all my steps?

¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him?

²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps. ²² There is no darkness nor shadow of death, to hide there those who work iniquity.

¹ To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me . ² You know my sitting down, and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar off. ³ You sift my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For not a word is on my tongue, but, lo, O Jehovah, You know it all. ⁵ You have closed me in behind, and in front, and Your hand is laid on me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is set on high; I am not able to reach it. ⁷ Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your face? ⁸ If I go up to Heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there! ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, dwelling in the uttermost part of the sea, ¹⁰ even there Your hand shall lead me; and Your right hand shall seize me. ¹¹ If I say: Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light around me. ¹² Even the darkness will not be dark from You, but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light. ¹³ For You have possessed my inward parts; You wove me in the womb of my mother. ¹⁴ I will thank You, for with fearful things I am wonderful; Your works are marvelous, and my soul knows it very well. ¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret; when I was woven in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written the days they were formed, and not one was among them. ¹⁷ And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake I am still with You. ¹⁹ Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; and bloody men, depart from me. ²⁰ Who will maliciously speak against You? Your enemies are lifted up with vanity. ²¹ O Jehovah, do not I hate those hating You? And am I not detesting those rising against You? ²² I hate them with a perfect hatred; they have become my enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; ²⁴ and see if any wicked way is in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

¹⁰ I, Jehovah, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

²⁴ Or can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him, says Jehovah? Do I not fill the heavens and the earth, says Jehovah?

¹⁶ in a day when God judges the hidden things of men, according to my gospel, through Jesus Christ.

⁵ Then do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes, who will both shed light on the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of the hearts. And then praise will be to each one from God.

¹² For the word of God is living, and powerfully working, and sharper than every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart; ¹³ and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.

²³ And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches will know that I am the One searching the inner parts and hearts. And I will give to each of you according to your works.

¹⁷ And the king said to the runners that stood by him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he was fleeing, and did not reveal it in my ear. But the king's servants were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah. ¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests and killed eighty five men bearing a linen ephod in that day. ¹⁹ And he struck Nob, the city of the priests with the mouth of the sword, from man even to woman, from child even to suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the mouth of the sword.

¹⁰ And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant; they have thrown down Your altars, and they have killed Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek to take my life.

¹¹ You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations.

² They have given the bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens; the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one burying.

⁷ He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

¹⁰ Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and shall say every evil word against you, lying, on account of Me. ¹² Rejoice and leap for joy, for your reward is great in Heaven; for in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²¹ But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

² They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming that everyone killing you will think to bear a service before God. ³ And they will do these things to you because they do not know the Father nor Me.

⁹ For I think that God set us out last, the apostles, as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, even to angels and to men.

³⁰ Why are we also in danger every hour? ³¹ Day by day I die, by your boasting, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ And I will give to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, dressed in sackcloth. ⁴ These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands, standing before the God of the earth. ⁵ And if anyone desires to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone desires to harm them, so it is right for him to be killed. ⁶ These have the authority to shut up the heaven, that no rain may rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. ⁷ And when they complete their witness, the beast coming up out of the abyss will make war with them, and will overcome them, and will kill them. ⁸ And their bodies will be on the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom, and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified. ⁹ And some from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half; and they do not allow their dead bodies to be put in tombs.

⁶ And I saw the woman being drunk from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled, seeing her with a great marveling.

⁶ Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; be lifted up at the rage of my vexers; and awake for Me! You have commanded judgment.

⁵ For the pain of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now rise up, says Jehovah; I will set in safety; he pants for it.

²³ Stir Yourself and awaken to my judgment, to my cause, my God and my Lord.

⁹ Now You have cast us off and have shamed us. And You do not go forth with our armies.

⁴ Without my fault they run and prepare themselves; awaken to help me, and look on me . ⁵ And You, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel: Awake to visit all the nations; be not merciful to any plotting evil. Selah.

⁷ Will the lord cast off forever; and will He not add to be pleased any more?

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke, as one asleep, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine.

⁹ Awake! Awake! Arm of Jehovah, put on strength. Awake, as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You cutting in pieces Rahab, and piercing the sea monster?

³⁸ And He was on the stern, sleeping on the headrest. And they awakened Him, and said to Him, Teacher, does it not matter to You that we are perishing?

²³ And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery. ²⁴ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

²⁰ And He said, I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.

²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and count me for Your enemy?

¹ Why do You stand far away, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of distress?

¹¹ He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever.

¹ To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. Until when will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? Until when will You hide Your face from me?

⁹ I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses me?

¹ Judge me, O God, and strive for my cause against a nation not godly. Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. ² For You are the God of my strength. Why have You cast me off? Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses? ³ Oh send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me and bring me to the mount of Your holiness and to Your tabernacles. ⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, the joy of my delight, and I will thank with the lyre, O God, my God.

¹⁹ Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beasts; You will not forever forget the life of Your afflicted ones.

²³ Do not forget the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those rising up against You is going up continually.

²⁷ Why will you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel; My way is hidden from Jehovah, and my judgment is passed over by my God? ²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding.

⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those having been slain for the word of God, and for the witness which they had. ¹⁰ And they cried with a great voice, saying, Until when, holy and true Master, do You not judge and take vengeance for our blood, from those dwelling on the earth?

¹¹ You have brought us into the net; You laid afflictions on our loins. ¹² You have let men ride at our head; we went through fire and through water, but You brought us out to plenty.

²⁵ Daleth. My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to Your word.

²³ But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and Put your back as the ground, and as the street to those who cross.

⁵ Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared on scarlet embrace dunghills.

²² Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his distresses.

¹¹ But I will walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

² Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.

⁷ Let Israel hope to Jehovah, for with Jehovah is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption; ⁸ and He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.