Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked …

With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of …

… that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

… the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the …

If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

… the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your …

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.

Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD …

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us …

… summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people. Then I will …

… Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, …

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?