So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.

Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the Lord.

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we depend on the Lord our God.

Listen to me! Quickly deliver me! Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe!

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

Princesses are among your honored guests, your bride stands at your right hand, wearing jewelry made with gold from Ophir.

His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?

“I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.”

May the Lord repay my accusers in this way, those who say evil things about me!

I am a friend to all your loyal followers, and to those who keep your precepts.

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say, ‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.