Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, s