Hear me, O Lord, when I cry out! Have mercy on me and answer me!

Come and witness God’s exploits! His acts on behalf of people are awesome!

O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)

I seek your favor with all my heart. Have mercy on me as you promised!

The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.

Support me, so that I will be delivered. Then I will focus on your statutes continually.

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

“Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

But on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Then Esau said, “Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

Joash passed away and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.