So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the Lord your God.

For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he remained there for three years.

Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”

The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

So I came to Jerusalem. When I had been there for three days,

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

I will thank the Lord for his justice; I will sing praises to the sovereign Lord!

They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.

I will sing praises to God’s name! I will magnify him as I give him thanks!

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, “This one was born there.” (Selah)

so they may proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion, and praise him in Jerusalem,