¹⁹ God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

¹⁰ And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

¹¹ And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.

¹⁵ Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

¹² And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

² For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

¹¹ From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

²⁰ Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?

¹¹ Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

³² For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

¹² And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.

¹ <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

⁵⁹ When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

⁵ They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

⁵ You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;