“She despises you, she scorns you—

^wthe virgin daughter of Zion;

she ^xwags her head behind you—

the daughter of Jerusalem.

22  “Whom have you ^ymocked and ^zreviled?

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes to the heights?

Against ^athe Holy One of Israel!

23  ^bBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,

and you have said, ^c‘With my many chariots

I have gone up the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of ^dLebanon;

I felled its tallest cedars,

its choicest cypresses;

I entered its farthest lodging place,

its most ^efruitful forest.

24  I dug wells

and drank foreign waters,

and I dried up with the sole of my foot

all the streams ^fof Egypt.’

25  “Have you not heard

that ^gI determined it long ago?

I planned from days of old

what ^hnow I bring to pass,

that you should turn fortified cities

into heaps of ruins,

26  while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,

are dismayed and confounded,

and have become ⁱlike plants of the field

and like tender grass,

like grass on the housetops,

blighted before it is grown.

27  “But I know your sitting down

^jand your going out and coming in,

and your raging against me.

28  Because you have raged against me

and your complacency has come into my ears,

I will ^kput my hook in your nose

and my bit in your mouth,

and ^lI will turn you back on the way

by which you came.

1  God is our ^crefuge and strength,

a very ^dpresent² help in ^etrouble.

2  Therefore we will not fear ^fthough the earth give way,

though the mountains be moved into ^gthe heart of the sea,

3  though ^hits waters roar and foam,

though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

4  There is ⁱa river whose streams make glad ^jthe city of God,

the holy ^khabitation of the Most High.

5  ^lGod is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;

God will help her when morning dawns.

6  ^mThe nations rage, the kingdoms totter;

he ⁿutters his voice, the earth ^omelts.

7  ^pThe Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

8  ^qCome, behold the works of the Lord,

how he has brought desolations on the earth.

9  ^rHe makes wars cease to the end of the earth;

he ^sbreaks the bow and shatters the spear;

^the burns the chariots with fire.

10  ^u“Be still, and know that I am God.

^vI will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!”

11  ^pThe Lord of hosts is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

1  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead ^gJoseph like ^ha flock.

You who are ⁱenthroned upon the cherubim, ^jshine forth.

2  Before ^kEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

^lstir up your might

and ^mcome to save us!

3  ⁿRestore us,¹ O God;

^olet your face shine, that we may be saved!

4  O ^pLord God of hosts,

^qhow long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5  You have fed them with ^rthe bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6  ^sYou make us an object of contention for our ^sneighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7  ⁿRestore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8  You brought ^ta vine out of Egypt;

you ^udrove out the nations and planted it.

9  You ^vcleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

10  The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

11  It sent out its branches to ^wthe sea

and its shoots to ^wthe River.²

12  Why then have you ^xbroken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13  ^yThe boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14  Turn again, O God of hosts!

^zLook down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

15  the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16  They have ^aburned it with fire; they have ^acut it down;

may they perish at ^bthe rebuke of your face!

17  But ^clet your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18  Then we shall not turn back from you;

^dgive us life, and we will call upon your name!

19  ^eRestore us, O Lord God of hosts!

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

1  ^uPraise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord,

give praise, O ^vservants of the Lord,

2  who ⁿstand in the house of the Lord,

in ^wthe courts of the house of our God!

3  Praise the Lord, for ^xthe Lord is good;

sing to his name, ^yfor it is pleasant!¹

4  For the Lord has ^zchosen Jacob for himself,

Israel as his ^aown possession.

5  For I know that ^bthe Lord is great,

and that our Lord is above all gods.

6  ^cWhatever the Lord pleases, he does,

in heaven and on earth,

in the seas and all deeps.

7  ^dHe it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,

who ^emakes lightnings for the rain

and brings forth the wind from his ^fstorehouses.

8  He it was who ^gstruck down the firstborn of Egypt,

both of man and of beast;

9  who in your midst, O Egypt,

sent ^hsigns and wonders

against Pharaoh and all his servants;

10  ⁱwho struck down many nations

and killed mighty kings,

11  ^jSihon, king of the Amorites,

and ^kOg, king of Bashan,

and ^lall the kingdoms of Canaan,

12  and ^mgave their land as a heritage,

a heritage to his people Israel.

13  ⁿYour name, O Lord, endures forever,

^oyour renown,² O Lord, throughout all ages.

14  ^pFor the Lord will vindicate his people

and ^qhave compassion on his servants.

15  ^rThe idols of the nations are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.

16  They have mouths, but do not speak;

they have eyes, but do not see;

17  they have ears, but do not hear,

nor is there any breath in their mouths.

18  Those who make them become like them;

so do all who trust in them.

19  ^sO house of Israel, bless the Lord!

O house of Aaron, bless the Lord!

20  O house of Levi, bless the Lord!

You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!

21  Blessed be the Lord ^tfrom Zion,

he who ^udwells in Jerusalem!

^vPraise the Lord!