Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways – do not wander into her pathways;

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:

saying, “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

O Lord, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!

saying, “Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,

“Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events.

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”

He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.

A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.

“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.