saying, “Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”

For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song. May God show us his favor and bless us! May he smile on us! (Selah)

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

“Please ask the Lord to come and help us, because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the Lord will perform one of his miracles as in times past and make him stop attacking us and leave.”

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

But David said, “No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the Lord has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Not to us, O Lord, not to us! But to your name bring honor, for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness.

And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the Lord will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, in proportion to the years we have experienced trouble!

They said to me, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?