LORD, I look up to you, up to heaven, where you rule.

As a servant depends on his master, as a maid depends on her mistress, so we will keep looking to you, O LORD our God, until you have mercy on us.

"Turn to me now and be saved, people all over the world! I am the only God there is.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

Look at me, O LORD my God, and answer me. Restore my strength; don't let me die.

O LORD, you give me light; you dispel my darkness.

Light shines on the righteous, and gladness on the good.

For the Jews there was joy and relief, happiness and a sense of victory.

Cover their faces with shame, O LORD, and make them acknowledge your power.

Joab went to the king's house and said to him, "Today you have humiliated your men---the men who saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and of your wives and concubines.