He did what the Lord approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.

Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.

The Levites had David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets.

Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

The king says, “I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: ‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!

You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for I am praying to you!

You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.

May the Lord rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!