and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.

May you be blessed by the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth!

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth. Teach me your statutes!

You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm.

My help comes from the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth!

Our deliverer is the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth.

May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion!

He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.

and gave their land as an inheritance, for his loyal love endures,

but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song.

Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!

They did not ask: ‘Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

“Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.