<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> am deprived<n id="2" /> of peace;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I have forgotten what happiness<n id="4" /> is.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1499; (<i>Kafi>)p> <p class="poetry">For the Lord<n id="1" /> will notp> <p class="poetry">reject us forever.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But Israel has rejected what is morally good;p> <p class="poetry">so an enemy will pursue him.p>

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> you rejected and embarrassed us!p> <p class="poetry">You did not go into battle with our armies.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I asked,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Will the Lord reject me forever?p> <p class="poetry">Will he never again show me his favor?p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, why do you reject me,p> <p class="poetry">and pay no attention to me?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you have spurned<n id="1" /> and rejected him;p> <p class="poetry">you are angry with your chosen king.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Have you not rejected us, O God?p> <p class="poetry">O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.p>

<p class="poetry">For you are the God who shelters me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Why do you reject me?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Why must I walk around<n id="3" /> mourning<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">because my enemies oppress me?p>

<p class="poetry">Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?p> <p class="poetry">Wake up!<n id="1" /> Do not reject us forever!p>

<p class="poetry">Have you not rejected us, O God?p> <p class="poetry">O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A well-written song<n id="2" /> by Asaph.p> <p class="poetry">Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why does your anger burn<n id="4" /> against the sheep of your pasture?p>

<p class="poetry">The canals<n id="1" /> will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;p> <p class="poetry">the bulrushes and reeds will decay,p>

<p class="poetry">O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!p> <p class="poetry">My anger burns against them!p> <p class="poetry">They will not survive much longer without being punished,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though they are Israelites!p>

The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s priests.

We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1494; (<i>Zayini>)p> <p class="poetry">The Lord<n id="1" /> rejected<n id="2" /> his altarp> <p class="poetry">and abhorred his temple.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He handed over to the enemy<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">her palace walls;p> <p class="poetry">the enemy<n id="5" /> shouted<n id="6" /> in the <sc>Lord&#8217;ssc> templep> <p class="poetry">as if it were a feast day.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And you, Solomon my son, obey<n id="1" /> the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit,<n id="2" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> examines all minds and understands every motive of one&#8217;s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him,<n id="3" /> but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I (says the <sc>Lordsc>) will strengthen the kingdom<n id="1" /> of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph<n id="2" /> and will bring them back<n id="3" /> because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the <sc>Lordsc> their God and therefore I will hear them.

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; according to the <i>shushan-eduthi> style;<n id="2" /> a prayer<n id="3" /> of David written to instruct others.<n id="4" /> It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down<n id="5" /> 12,000 Edomites<n id="6" /> in the Valley of Salt.<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">O God, you have rejected us.<n id="8" />p> <p class="poetry">You suddenly turned on us in your anger.<n id="9" />p> <p class="poetry">Please restore us!<n id="10" />p>