Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loyal love endures!

Now the leader of the clan of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

I cry out for help to the sovereign God, to the God who vindicates me.

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)

He blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.