You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem; the Valley of Succoth I will measure off.

For the music director; a psalm of David, a song. Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion. Vows made to you are fulfilled.

I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.

So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

Praise the Lord, all that he has made, in all the regions of his kingdom! Praise the Lord, O my soul!

A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord’s temple during the night.

I cry out to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living.”

A noble wife is the crown of her husband, but the wife who acts shamefully is like rottenness in his bones.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.

For he will die in the country where they took him as a captive. He will never see this land again.”

Moreover, the Lord says, “Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!

So Jeremiah remained confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem was captured.The following events occurred when Jerusalem was captured.