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Job again took up his theme and said:
O that I were as in months gone by,
In the days when God watched over me,
When His lamp shone over my head,
When I walked in the dark by its light…
A psalm of Asaph.
O God, heathens have entered Your domain,
defiled Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
They have left Your servants’ corpses
as food for the fowl of heaven,
and the…
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did what was displeasing to the Lord, following the abhorrent practices of the nations that the…
Alas!
Lonely sits the city
Once great with people!
She that was great among nations
Is become like a widow;
The princess among states
Is become a thrall.
Bitterly she weeps in the night…
For the leader; with instrumental music on the sheminith. A psalm of David.
O Lord, do not punish me in anger, do not chastise me in fury.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I languish; heal me, O Lord…
O God of hosts, restore us;
show Your favor that we may be delivered.
You plucked up a vine from Egypt;
You expelled nations and planted it.
You cleared a place for it;
it took deep root and…
O you who dwell in the shelter of the Most High
and abide in the protection of Shaddai—
I say of the Lord, my refuge and stronghold,
my God in whom I trust,
that He will save you from the fowler’s…
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat,
sat and wept,
as we thought of Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung up our lyres,
for our captors asked us there for songs,
our tormentors, for amusement,
“Si…
The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king and he reigned three months in…