Psalms 44:9

Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.