But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?

To him who is despairing, kindness should be shown by his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah.] i0 par The transgression of the wicked declares within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has left off acting wisely and doing good.

It is time for You to act, O Jehovah, for they have regarded Your Law as void.

and those drawing back from following Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired of Him.

Do we then annul the Law through faith? Let it not be! No rather, we establish the Law.

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died in vain.

But indeed, I would seek the Mighty God, and before God I would lay out my case;

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

Thus Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had transgressed against Jehovah, because he had not kept the Word of Jehovah, and because he asked counsel to seek after a medium.

He had not inquired after Jehovah; therefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they wailed on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and wine; they turn aside from Me.

And when a man's uncle shall take him away, and he who burns the bodies, to bring out the bones from the house; and he shall say to the one left in the recesses of the house, Are there any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Keep quiet! For we must not mention the name of Jehovah.

Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not faint,