Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

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

Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! BOOK V

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.

Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. A Song of Ascents.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins. A Song of Ascents. By David.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore. A Song of Ascents.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

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

House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!

And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;

And made Israel to pass through its midst; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you!"

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

"Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.