Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Draw near to my soul, redeem it: ransom me on account of mine enemies.

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Oh grant Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.

Like waters, they engulf me all day long; they surround me on all sides.

For thou didst gladden me, O Jehovah, by thy work: I will rejoice in the works of thy hands.

So hath mine eye descried them who were lying in wait for me, - Of my wicked assailants, mine ears, shall hear.

Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

They encompassed me, yes, they surrounded me [on every side];
In the name of the Lord I will cut them off.

I acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me; O teach me then thy statutes.

HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, for I await your justice.

{Yod} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

All thy commandments, are faithful, With falsehood, have they persecuted me, O help me!

Almost consumed me on earth have they, And I -- I have not forsaken Thy precepts.

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

Rescue my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.

Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

Teach me to do Your will,
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.

Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

“But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love and court death.”

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

“To me, my love, you are like
My [favorite] mare among the chariots of Pharaoh.

A cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi art thou unto me, O my beloved.

(The Bridegroom)
“O my dove, [here] in the clefts in the rock,
In the sheltered and secret place of the steep pathway,
Let me see your face,
Let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet,
And your face is lovely.”

(The Bridegroom)“How fair and beautiful you are, my darling,
How very beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil are like those of a dove;
Your hair is like [the shimmering black fleece of] a flock of [Arabian] goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead [beyond the Jordan].

Thou didst rob me of the heart, my sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of the heart with one of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have set me on fire! Thy hairy locks are like a flock of goats upon the mount of Gilead.

I did not know, but my soul set me on the chariots of my princely people.

Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

You turn things upside down [with your perversity]!
Shall the potter be considered equal with the clay,
That the thing that is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;
Or the thing that is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger I am sending? Who is blind like the one committed to me, or blind like the LORD's servant?

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.

“Remind Me [of your merits with a thorough report], let us plead and argue our case together;
State your position, that you may be proved right.

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

Consider this, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have made thee, that thou mightest serve me. O Israel, forget me not.

Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?

Hear me, O ye that are of a high stomach, but far from righteousness:

Thy shame shall be discovered, and thy privities shall be seen. For I will avenge me of thee, and will show no mercy to thee as I do to other men,

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Listen to Me, O islands and coastlands,
And pay attention, you peoples from far away.
The Lord has called Me from the womb;
From the body of My mother He has named Me.

Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

Who was it you dreaded and feared,
so that you lied and didn’t remember Me
or take it to heart?
Have I not kept silent for such a long time
and you do not fear Me?

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.

your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment [from the] beginning into the fold of their garment."

Thus, saith Yahweh, The, heavens, are my throne, and The earth, is my footstool: Where then is the house which ye can build me? Or where is my place of rest?

And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.

Else wouldst thou say unto me, 'O my father, thou art he that hast brought me up, and led me from my youth:

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

What good is frankincense that comes from Sheba to me, or sweet cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings aren't acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me."

Then the Lord said, "As for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people! Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf! Do not plead with me to save them, because I will not listen to you.

But they did not obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but followed the counsels and the stubbornness of their [own] evil heart (mind), and [they turned and] went backward instead of forward.

Yet they did not listen to Me and obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but stiffened their neck; they did more evil and behaved worse than their fathers.

The Lord answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.

Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.'"

So, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them."

But You know me, O Lord;
You see me;
And You examine my heart’s attitude toward You.
Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter
And set them apart for a day of carnage!

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry; and though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them [because they are done as obligations, and not as acts of loving obedience]. Instead I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.'

Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,

For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah:

You are like Gilead to Me,
or the summit of Lebanon,
but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness,
uninhabited cities.

If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

One of their own people will be their leader. Their ruler will come from their own number. I will invite him to approach me, and he will do so. For no one would dare approach me on his own. I, the Lord, affirm it!

And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

“At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself [into servitude] or who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall release him from [serving] you; but your forefathers did not listen [submissively] to Me or obey Me.