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

If the Lord who commands armies had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’

Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”

“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, “Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!”’”

We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

Very soon they will say, “We have no king since we did not fear the Lord. But what can a king do for us anyway?”

Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

Two blind men were sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”

One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”