<p class="poetry">For all the gods of the nations are worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> made the sky.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director, a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">O God whom I praise, do not ignore me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden,p> <p class="poetry">O God of Israel, deliverer!p>

<p class="poetry">Do you people think<n id="1" /> that I am some local deityp> <p class="poetry">and not the transcendent God?&#8221;<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> asks.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel has a message for you, Baruch.

<p class="poetry">But I will keep watching for the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">I will wait for the God who delivers me.p> <p class="poetry">My God will hear my lament.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> my God says this: &#8220;Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

God also said to Moses, &#8220;You must say this to the Israelites, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> &#8211; the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob &#8211; has sent me to you. This is my name<n id="2" /> forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So they assembled<n id="1" /> all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, &#8220;What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?&#8221; They replied, &#8220;The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.&#8221; So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.p>

I am taking the kingdom from him<n id="1" /> because they have<n id="2" /> abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions<n id="3" /> by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon&#8217;s father David did.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">He also said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Worthy of praise is<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of Shem!p> <p class="poetry">May Canaan be the slave of Shem!<n id="2" />p>

Now I understand that<n id="1" /> you have gone away<n id="2" /> because you longed desperately<n id="3" /> for your father&#8217;s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> is my strength and my song,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and he has become my salvation.p> <p class="poetry">This is my God, and I will praise him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">my father&#8217;s God, and I will exalt him.p>

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The God of my father has been my help<n id="2" /> and delivered<n id="3" /> me from the sword of Pharaoh&#8221;).p>

You must not make gods of silver alongside me,<n id="1" /> nor make gods of gold for yourselves.<n id="2" />p>

and they saw<n id="1" /> the God of Israel. Under his feet<n id="2" /> there was something like a pavement<n id="3" /> made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.<n id="4" />

At three times<n id="1" /> in the year all your men<n id="2" /> must appear before the Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="3" /> the God of Israel.

&#8220;Let the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the spirits of all humankind,<n id="1" /> appoint<n id="2" /> a man over the community,

<p class="poetry">The everlasting God is a refuge,p> <p class="poetry">and underneath you are his eternal arms;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he has driven out enemies before you,p> <p class="poetry">and has said, &#8220;Destroy!&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Joshua built an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel on Mount Ebal,