Psalms 77:7

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

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.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

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.”

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

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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

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

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

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

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

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

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.

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

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.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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

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

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

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

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

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.”

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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.”

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.

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

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

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?

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

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

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

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

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

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

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

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

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

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

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

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.