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They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

…how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.

Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

…and freed us from our enemies. His loving devotion endures forever.

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

…as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.