You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For the salvation of Your anointed.
You struck the head of the house of the evil
To lay him open from thigh to neck. Selah.

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

The hairy

But You, O God, will bring them down to the

pit of destruction;

Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in You.

Of such

You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;
He has bent His bow and made it ready.

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.

General references

For if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,