How precious is your loyal love, O God! The human race finds shelter under your wings.

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration!

I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.

if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath.

The discerning person acquires knowledge, and the wise person seeks knowledge.

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.

They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say, “Everything will be all right!” But everything is not all right!

They went on to Egypt because they refused to obey the Lord, and came to Tahpanhes.

From him will come the cornerstone, the wall peg, the battle bow, and every ruler.

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

The Israelites went up to Bethel and asked God, “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” The Lord said, “Judah should lead.”

They would then hand over the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

In the west, people respect the Lord’s reputation; in the east they recognize his splendor. For he comes like a rushing stream driven on by wind sent from the Lord.

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.