So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.”

The Lord sent you on a campaign saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’

They replied to the king, “As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel –

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!

The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”

For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will burn up the palaces of Ben Hadad.”

ח (Khet) The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.