Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

For it came to pass that the children of Israel [had] transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,

and [in those] of the children of Israel, as many as secretly practiced customs, not as [they should have done], against the Lord their God;

And they burned incense there on all the high places, as the nations [did] whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved [images] to provoke the Lord to anger.

And the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, even by the hand of all His prophets, [and] of every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, [and] all that I sent to them by the hand of My servants the prophets.

And they kept not any of His testimonies which He charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and practiced divinations and soothsaying, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him.

But the adulterer through lack of understanding procures destruction to his soul.

But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls, and they that hate me love death.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

Woe to the transgressor! Evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

Has not your forsaking Me brought these things upon you? Says the Lord your God.

Your apostasy shall correct you, and your wickedness shall reprove you. Know then, and see, that your forsaking Me [has been] bitter to you, says the Lord your God; and I have taken no pleasure in you, says the Lord your God.

Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it has reached to your heart.

Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to Him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? Says the Lord Almighty.

But I am the Lord your God that establishes the heavens, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven. But I showed them not to you, that you should go after them; and I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but Me; and there is no Saviour beside Me.

There is not [any such] as the God of the beloved; He who rides upon the heaven [is] your helper, and the Magnificent One of the firmament.

Our soul waits on the Lord; for He is our helper and defender.

For the end, for the sons of Korah; A Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains- from where my help shall come.

My help [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.