When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

O God, invincible warrior, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine,

For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm. O Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob.

For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

A song of ascents. When the Lord restored the well-being of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.

The Lord made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said, “I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the heart of his masters.

before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.