Psalms 3:2

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Salvation belongs to Yahweh. May your blessing be on your people.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. You split the earth with rivers.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”