שִׁית

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—

I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.

Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

“Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.