O Lord, show us your loyal love! Bestow on us your deliverance!

How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!

O Lord, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!

who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.

What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

The Lord takes his position to judge; he stands up to pass sentence on his people.

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

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; pronounce judgment on my behalf!

O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

You furiously stomp on the earth, you angrily trample down the nations.

Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house!’

When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.

But others jeered at the speakers, saying, “They are drunk on new wine!”

God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

and no lie was found on their lips; they are blameless.

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.