For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
The Lord relented concerning this: “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
The Lord relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
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