So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

For the Lord, our ruler, the Lord, our commander, the Lord, our king – he will deliver us.

We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!”

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”

But they answered, “We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us, ‘You and your children must never drink wine.

What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

The Lord is God and he has delivered us. Tie the offering with ropes to the horns of the altar!

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”