For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David. O God, hear my cry for help! Pay attention to my prayer!

I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

O sovereign Lord, intervene on my behalf for the sake of your reputation! Because your loyal love is good, deliver me!

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

Ariel is as good as dead – Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule.

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall – and none of them call on me!

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

Next he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and so anointed the altar, all its vessels, and the wash basin and its stand to consecrate them.

The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded Moses,