Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, “Surely it is a Reminder to us that the Lord is God.”

while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

David praised the Lord before the entire assembly: “O Lord God of our father Israel, you deserve praise forevermore!

Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.”

Then some Levites, from the Kohathites and Korahites, got up and loudly praised the Lord God of Israel.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

O God, arrogant men attack me; a gang of ruthless men, who do not respect you, seek my life.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

The Lord is God and he has delivered us. Tie the offering with ropes to the horns of the altar!

“Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous.”

Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

So in the east extol the Lord, along the seacoasts extol the fame of the Lord God of Israel.

The Lord reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

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