If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

A song, a psalm by the Korahites. The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise in the city of our God, his holy hill.

For God, our God, is our defender forever! He guides us!

Our God approaches and is not silent; consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

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

He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel. All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

Deliver us, O Lord, our God! Gather us from among the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.

Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God! Yes, praise is pleasant and appropriate!

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

O Lord, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.

Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”

Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.

We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

The exiles from Judah will say, ‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us! Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion what the Lord our God has done!’

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

“But now briefly we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.