Israel

for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.