For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!

The Lord shatters his adversaries; he thunders against them from the heavens. The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and exalt the power of his anointed one.”

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

Listen, you who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau. I am opposed to you,’ says the Lord. ‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us. No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.”