How blessed are the people who worship you! O Lord, they experience your favor.

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! The world is established, it cannot be moved. He judges the nations fairly.”

before the Lord! For he comes to judge the earth! He judges the world fairly, and the nations in a just manner.

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

The account of his intervention will be recorded for future generations; people yet to be born will praise the Lord.

Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you.

He delivered his people; he ordained that his covenant be observed forever. His name is holy and awesome.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forevermore.

who loves me and is my stronghold, my refuge and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I take shelter, who makes nations submit to me.

Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

Listen to the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom! Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, people of Gomorrah!

The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!

All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.