Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors behind you; hide (as it were) for a few moments, until the indignation has passed.

i1 [To the chief Musician. A song for the sons of Korah. Alamoth.]i0 par God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, when mountains are slipping into the midst of the seas.

The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; the righteous one runs into it and is safe.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them throughout the earth, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the lands where they have gone.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I have founded in Zion a Stone, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone, a sure Foundation; he who trusts in It shall not be anxious.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against

Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

As it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.

And David says: Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

I say then, have they stumbled that they should come to an end? Let it not be! But through their trespass, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

and a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

Upon the wicked He will rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at peace, a trap.

So they were offended in Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.

For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.