But evil men will die; the Lord’s enemies will be incinerated – they will go up in smoke.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.

locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

“That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.

“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.

When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau.

The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

He took six hundred select chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, and officers on all of them.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

The Lord’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says, “Majestic!”

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.