Psalms 78:59

Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

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

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

“ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

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.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

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!

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.

“Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”

For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

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

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

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

The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.