Psalms 78:62

The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

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

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.

“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

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

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

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

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

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!

It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

Yahweh said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not among you, lest you be struck before your enemies.’ ”

Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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.

Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

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

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

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

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

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

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

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

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

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.

Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.

“ ‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

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.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

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

All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

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?’ ”

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

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

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”