If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him –

You are the God who does amazing things; you have revealed your strength among the nations.

Turn toward me and have mercy on me! Give your servant your strength! Deliver your slave!

For you have taken refuge in the Lord, my shelter, the sovereign One.

I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ’s faithfulness.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

When you capture the city, set it on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.”

By David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have integrity, and I trust in the Lord without wavering.

The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women.”

The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow: “Be sure of this: Just as I have intended, so it will be; just as I have planned, it will happen.

I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

some evil people have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before).

Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”

“I have shown love to you,” says the Lord, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the Lord explains, “yet I chose Jacob

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.