<p class="poetry">If we had rejected our God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song, a psalm by the Korahites.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is great and certainly worthy of praisep> <p class="poetry">in the city of our God,<n id="2" /> his holy hill.p>

<p class="poetry">For God, our God, is our defender forever!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He guides<n id="2" /> us!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Our God approaches and is not silent;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">consuming fire goes ahead of himp> <p class="poetry">and all around him a storm rages.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">May our sovereign God extend his favor to us!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Make our endeavors successful!p> <p class="poetry">Yes, make them successful!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will pay them back for their sin.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He will destroy them because of<n id="2" /> their evil;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> our God will destroy them.p>

<p class="poetry">For he is our God;p> <p class="poetry">we are the people of his pasture,p> <p class="poetry">the sheep he owns.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Today, if only you would obey him!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He remains loyal and faithful to the family of Israel.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All the ends of the earth see our God deliver us.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc> our God, you answered them.p> <p class="poetry">They found you to be a forgiving God,p> <p class="poetry">but also one who punished their sinful deeds.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Deliver us, O <sc>Lordsc>, our God!p> <p class="poetry">Gather us from among the nations!p> <p class="poetry">Then we will give thanks<n id="1" /> to your holy name,p> <p class="poetry">and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">for it is good to sing praises to our God!p> <p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="2" /> praise is pleasant and appropriate!p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word,p> <p class="poetry">you leaders of Sodom!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention to our God&#8217;s rebuke,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">people of Gomorrah!p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, our God,p> <p class="poetry">masters other than you have ruled us,p> <p class="poetry">but we praise your name alone.p>

<p class="poetry">Those who trust in idolsp> <p class="poetry">will turn back and be utterly humiliated,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who say to metal images, &#8216;You are our gods.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Come back to me, you wayward people.p> <p class="poetry">I want to cure your waywardness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Say,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Here we are. We come to youp> <p class="poetry">because you are the <sc>Lordsc> our God.p>

<p class="poetry">We know our noisy worship of false godsp> <p class="poetry">on the hills and mountains did not help us.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We know that the <sc>Lordsc> our Godp> <p class="poetry">is the only one who can deliver Israel.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The exiles from Judah will say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has brought about a great deliverance for us!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Come on, let&#8217;s go and proclaim in Zionp> <p class="poetry">what the <sc>Lordsc> our God has done!&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Our food has been cut off right before our eyes!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!<n id="2" />p>

You go near so that you can hear everything the <sc>Lordsc> our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he<n id="1" /> says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But now briefly<n id="1" /> we have received mercy from the <sc>Lordsc> our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position<n id="2" /> in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes<n id="3" /> and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.