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

You made us as sheep [intended] for food; and You scattered us among the nations.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

All these things have come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, neither have we dealt unrighteously in Your covenant.

For You have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

for He knows the secrets of the heart.

Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, and do not cast [us] off forever.

For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

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?

And now, [my] son Solomon, know the God of your fathers, and serve Him with a perfect heart and a willing soul; for the Lord searches all hearts, and knows every thought: if you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you should forsake Him, He will forsake you forever.

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of the ungodly prospers? [And] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to Him, and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

God heard and lightly regarded [them], and greatly despised Israel.

So the Lord was very angry with His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters,

ZAIN. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has cast off His sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

And I will cut off three shepherds in one month, and My soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against Me.

with which Your enemies have reviled, O Lord; with which they have reviled the recompense of Your anointed.

Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of Your anointed.

You mountains of Gilboa, let neither dew nor rain descend upon you, nor fields of firstfruits [be upon you], for there the shield of the mighty ones has been grievously assailed; the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

But if He should say thus, I have no pleasure in you; behold, [here] I am, let Him do to me according to that which is good in His sight.

And it came to pass when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and when he had grown strong, [that] he forsook the commandments of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horses. And there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt: Libyans, [the] Sukkiim, and [the] Ethiopians.

And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah that were gathered to Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says the Lord: You have left Me, and I will leave you in the hand of Shishak.

And when the Lord saw that they repented, then the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying, They have repented; I will not destroy them, but I will set them in safety for a little while, and My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem.

So Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem, and took the treasures that were in the house of the Lord, and the treasures that were in the king's house: he took all, and he took the golden shields which Solomon had made.

And it came to pass, when the king went into the house of the Lord, the guards and the footmen went in, and those that returned to meet the footmen.

RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In His shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Awake, O sword, against My shepherds, and against the man who is My citizen, says the Lord Almighty; strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring My hand upon the little ones.