<p class="poetry">Do not reject me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not push your servant away in anger!p> <p class="poetry">You are my deliverer!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not forsake or abandon me,p> <p class="poetry">O God who vindicates me!p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; written by the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, David; an oracle.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">An evil man is rebellious to the core.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He does not fear God,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,p> <p class="poetry">as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so my eyes will look to the <sc>Lordsc>, our God, until he shows us favor.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song of ascents.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Attention!<n id="3" /> Praise the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">all you servants of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">who serve<n id="4" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple during the night.p>

<p class="poetry">I purchased male and female slaves,p> <p class="poetry">and I owned slaves who were born in my house;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I also possessed more livestock &#8211; both herds and flocks &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Also, do not pay attention to everything that people<n id="1" /> say;p> <p class="poetry">otherwise,<n id="2" /> you might even hear<n id="3" /> your servant cursing you.p>

Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s land.<n id="1" /> They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Later the <sc>Lordsc> explained, &#8220;In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

<p class="poetry">Everyone will suffer &#8211; the priest as well as the people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the master as well as the servant,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the elegant lady as well as the female attendant,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the seller as well as the buyer,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the borrower as well as the lender,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">the creditor as well as the debtor.<n id="6" />p>

Certainly you will not refuse one of my master&#8217;s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">you whom I am bringing back<n id="1" /> from the earth&#8217;s extremities,p> <p class="poetry">and have summoned from the remote regions &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I told you, &#8220;You are my servant.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">I have chosen you and not rejected you.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Here is my servant whom I support,p> <p class="poetry">my chosen one in whom I take pleasure.p> <p class="poetry">I have placed my spirit on him;p> <p class="poetry">he will make just decrees<n id="2" /> for the nations.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc>, the one who made you, says &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid, my servant Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Jeshurun,<n id="1" /> whom I have chosen!p>

<p class="poetry">who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and brings to pass the announcements<n id="2" /> of his messengers,p> <p class="poetry">who says about Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> &#8216;She will be inhabited,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and about the towns of Judah, &#8216;They will be rebuilt,p> <p class="poetry">her ruins I will raise up,&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Leave Babylon!p> <p class="poetry">Flee from the Babylonians!p> <p class="poetry">Announce it with a shout of joy!p> <p class="poetry">Make this known!p> <p class="poetry">Proclaim it throughout the earth!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> protects<n id="2" /> his servant Jacob.p>

<p class="poetry">Who among you fears the <sc>Lordsc>?p> <p class="poetry">Who obeys<n id="1" /> his servant?p> <p class="poetry">Whoever walks in deep darkness,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">without light,p> <p class="poetry">should trust in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and rely on his God.p>

<p class="poetry">When you see this, you will be happy,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will be revived.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will reveal his power to his servantsp> <p class="poetry">and his anger to his enemies.<n id="3" />p>

Say: &#8216;Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David&#8217;s succession.<n id="1" /> You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the <sc>Lordsc> says.<n id="2" />

Over and over again<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has sent<n id="2" /> his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention.<n id="3" />

You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again.<n id="1" /> But you have not paid any attention to them.