Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!”

These are the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

The Lord who commands armies is on our side! The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)

The Lord who commands armies is on our side! The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)

He says: “Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

But it is said of Zion’s residents, “Each one of these was born in her, and the sovereign One makes her secure.”

Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.