[A Psalm] of instruction, of Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law; incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

Why do You stand afar off, O Lord? [Why] do You overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?

I will say to God, You are my helper; why have You forgotten me? Why do I mourn, while the enemy oppresses [me]?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; [He is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

But now You have cast off, and put us to shame; and You will not go forth with our hosts.

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria of Zobah; and Joab [had] returned and struck twelve thousand[in] the Valley of Salt. O God, You have rejected and destroyed us; You have been angry, yet [You] have pitied us.

Will not You, O God, who has cast us off? And will not You, O God, go forth with our forces?

Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be well pleased no more?

Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, says the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, says the Lord, for all that they have done.

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I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know [what the Scripture says] in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and His jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

For we are Your people and the sheep of Your pasture; we will give You thanks forever; we will declare Your praise throughout all generations.

For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Know that the Lord, He is God; He made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of their pasture!

[As] I live, says the Lord God, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out My sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not My sheep,

you are My sheep, even the sheep of My flock, and I am the Lord your God, says the Lord God.

Do not fear, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give to you the kingdom.

But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, just as I said to you.

And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

I and the Father are one."