“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

For the music director; according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Deliver, Lord! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord’s promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

For the music director; written by the Lord’s servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,

lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”

But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.

The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God when he speaks.

So these men concluded, “We won’t find any pretext against this man Daniel unless it is in connection with the law of his God.”

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry as I could possibly be!”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

He continued, “I tell all of you the solemn truth – you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called ‘Great.’”

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”