When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions.

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

and throw your gold in the dust – your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

I will come and tell about the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord. I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

in the courts of the Lord’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,

Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord! For he rescues the oppressed from the clutches of evildoers.

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near.

“Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.