1 Distress and the sound of war hath my ear heard, The sound of a trumpet announcing slaughter and calamity, (PSS) 2 The sound of much people as of an exceeding high wind, As a tempest with mighty fire sweeping through the Negeb. (PSS) 3 And I said in my heart, Surely God judgeth us; A sound I hear moving towards Jerusalem, the holy city (PSS) 4 My loins were broken at what I heard, my knees tottered; My heart was afraid, my bones were dismayed like flax. (PSS) 5 I said: They establish their ways in righteousness. (PSS) 6 I thought upon the judgments of God since the creation of heaven and earth; I held God righteous in His judgements which have been from of old. (PSS) 7 God bare their sins in the full light of day; All the earth came to know the righteous judgements of God. (PSS) 8 In secret places underground their iniquities were committed to provoke Him to anger; (PSS) 9 They wrought confusion, son with mother and father with daughter; They committed adultery, every man with his neighhour's wife. (PSS) 10 They concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things; They plundered the sanctuary of God, as though there was no avenger. (PSS) 11 They trode the altar of the Lord, coming straight from all manner of uncleanness; And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as though these were common flesh. (PSS) 12 They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen. (PSS) 13 Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of wandering; And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might become drunken. (PSS) 14 He brought him that is from the end of the earth, that smiteth mightily; He decreed war against Jerusalem, and against her land. (PSS) 15 The princes of the land went to meet him with joy: they said unto him: Blessed be thy way! Come ye, enter ye in with peace. (PSS) 16 They made the rough ways even, before his entering in; They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they crowned its walls. (PSS) 17 As a father entereth the house of his sons, so he entered Jerusalem in peace; He established his feet there in great safety. (PSS) 18 He captured her fortresses and the wall of Jerusalem; For God Himself led him in safety, while they wandered. (PSS) 19 He destroyed their princes and every one wise in counsel; He poured out the blood of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, like the water of uncleanness. (PSS) 20 He led away their sons and daughters, whom they had begotten in defilement. (PSS) 21 They did according to their uncleanness, even as their fathers had done: They defiled Jerusalem and the things that had been hallowed to the name of God. (PSS) 22 But God hath shown Himself righteous in His judgements upon the nations of the earth; And the pious servants of God are like innocent lambs in their midst. (PSS) 23 Worthy to be praise… (PSS)
Psalms of Solomon 8:1–32
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Psalms of Solomon 2:17–19
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Psalms of Solomon 18:2–4
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Wisdom of Solomon 18:7–9
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Psalms 94:4–6
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