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Psalm 138:7

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God, if I am in trouble,\par keep me alive.\par If my enemies are angry at me,\par save me from them.\par

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I will continue to trust God\par even if God kills me. {\cf2\super [23]} \par But I will defend myself to his face.\par

God, you help people who trust you—\par those people stand by your right side.\par So listen to this prayer\par from one of your followers.\par

My enemies were stronger than me.\par Those people hated me.\par My enemies were too strong for me,\par so God saved me.\par

I was in trouble,\par and my enemies attacked me.\par But the Lord was there to support me!\par

God, you protected me\par and helped me win.\par You supported me with your right arm.\par You helped me defeat my enemy.\par

Now I know the Lord helps\par the king he chose!\par God was in his holy heaven,\par and he answered his chosen king.\par God used his great power to save the king.\par

It was not our father’s swords\par that took the land.\par It was not their strong arms\par that made them winners.\par It was because you were with our fathers.\par God, your great power saved our fathers.\par Why? Because you loved them!\par

So, defeat my enemies\par when I call to you for help.\par I know you can do it.\par You are God!\par

Use your great power and save us!\par Answer my prayer\par and save the people you love!\par

Then I thought,\par “The thing that really bothers me is this:\par ‘Has God Most-High lost his power?’”\par

Please, make us live again!\par Make your people happy.\par

You will have to bow down like a prisoner. You will fall down like a dead person. But that will not help you! God will still be angry. God will still be ready to punish you.

Don’t worry, I am with you.\par Don’t be afraid, I am your God.\par I will make you strong.\par I will help you.\par I will support you with my good\par right hand.\par

So the Lord has become very angry with his people. And the Lord will raise his hand and punish them. Even the mountains will be frightened. Dead bodies will lie in the streets like garbage. But God will still be angry. His hand will still be raised \{to punish the people\}.

I will not continue fighting forever.\par I will not always be angry.\par If I continued to be angry,\par then man’s spirit\par —the life I gave them—\par would die in front of me.\par

The Lord will bring the Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west. Those enemies will defeat Israel with their armies. But the Lord will still be angry with Israel. The Lord will still be ready to punish the people.

All the people are evil. So the Lord is not happy with the young men. And the Lord will not show mercy to their widows and orphans. {\cf2\super [111]} Why? Because all the people are evil. The people do things that are against God. The people speak lies. So God will continue to be angry with the people. God will continue to punish the people.

(\{This means\} Manasseh will fight against Ephraim, and Ephraim will fight against Manasseh. And then both of them will turn against Judah.)

The Lord says,\par “Babylon, you are a destroying mountain,\par and I am against you.\par Babylon, you destroyed the whole country,\par and I am against you.\par I will put my hand out against you.\par I will roll you off the cliffs.\par I will make you into a burned-up mountain.\par

Jesus was lifted up to heaven. Now Jesus is with God, at God’s right side. The Father (God) has now given the Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [37]} to Jesus. The Holy Spirit is what God promised to give. So now Jesus is pouring out (giving) that Spirit. This is what you see and hear.




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