For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.