The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! The world is established, it cannot be moved. He judges the nations fairly.”

A song, a psalm of David. I am determined, O God! I will sing and praise you with my whole heart.

and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

Death and Destruction are before the Lord – how much more the hearts of humans!

Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; how much less are lies for a ruler!

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool; how much less for a servant to rule over princes!

So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem, yet I maintained my objectivity:

Yes, as your judgments unfold, O Lord, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow.

Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.

Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.

I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?” The Lord is speaking!

“You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead – you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their genitals.

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.