The king asked them, “Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

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

But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.

because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.

Be assured that the evil person will certainly be punished, but the descendants of the righteous will not suffer unjust judgment.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.

A king’s wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have not done wrong.”

You have made the nation larger, O Lord, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.

Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.