Look down from Your holy house, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the land which You have given them, as You swore to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

He looks [down] from His dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth;

O God of hosts, turn, we pray; look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; what kind of a house will you build for Me? And of what kind [is to be] the place of My rest?

But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? If the heaven and heaven of heavens will not suffice You, how much less even this house which I have built for Your name?

Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to His holy dwelling place, [even] into heaven.

Who is as the Lord our God? Who dwells in the high places,

and [yet] looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth;

A Song of Degrees. Unto You who dwells in heaven have I lifted up my eyes.

Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

Are you not [the One] that dried the sea, the water, [even] the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?

Where are Your ancient mercies, O Lord, which You swore to David in Your truth?

out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but [He H]imself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says the Lord.

Remember Your compassions, O Lord, and Your mercies, for they are from everlasting.

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? [How] shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and acts of compassion,

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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

Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause.