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Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
All you who love her!
Join in her jubilation,
All you who mourned over her—
That you may suck from her breast
Consolation to the full,
That you may…
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…
The Lord is king!
Let the earth exult,
the many islands rejoice!
Dense clouds are around Him,
righteousness and justice are the base of His
throne.
Fire is His vanguard,
burning His foes on every…
A song of ascents.
When the Lord restores the fortunes of Zion
—we see it as in a dream—
our mouths shall be filled with laughter,
our tongues, with songs of joy.
Then shall they say among the…
The word that Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In the days to come,
The Mount of the Lord’s House
Shall stand firm above the mountains
And tower above the hills;
And…
Thus said my Lord God of Hosts: Go in to see that steward, that Shebna, in charge of the palace:
What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn out a tomb for yourself here?—
O…
Thus said the Lord to me: Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go forth, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, and say to them: Hear the word of the…
A psalm of Asaph.
God, the Lord God spoke
and summoned the world from east to west.
From Zion, perfect in beauty,
God appeared
—let our God come and not fail to act!
Devouring fire preceded Him;
i…
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…
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Behold, and see our disgrace!
Our heritage has passed to aliens,
Our homes to strangers.
We have become orphans, fatherless;
Our mothers are like widows.
W…