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Psalm 59:5

Good News Translation

Rise, Lord God Almighty, and come to my aid; see for yourself, God of Israel! Wake up and punish the heathen; show no mercy to evil traitors!

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He put up an altar there and named it for El, the God of Israel.

Proud people are coming to attack me; cruel people are trying to kill me— those who do not care about God.

May my enemies die before their time; may they go down alive into the world of the dead! Evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

so bring together all the peoples around you, and rule over them from above.

How much longer, Lord God Almighty, will you be angry with your people's prayers?

Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty. Listen, O God of Jacob!

The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in; they have been caught in their own trap.

Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.

Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me.

Jerusalem, your rulers and your people are like those of Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to what the Lord is saying to you. Pay attention to what our God is teaching you.

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

But, Lord, you know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their evil or pardon their sin. Throw them down in defeat and deal with them while you are angry.”

All of us who administer your empire—the supervisors, the governors, the lieutenant governors, and the other officials—have agreed that Your Majesty should issue an order and enforce it strictly. Give orders that for thirty days no one be permitted to request anything from any god or from any human being except from Your Majesty. Anyone who violates this order is to be thrown into a pit filled with lions.

The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

For God will not show mercy when he judges the person who has not been merciful; but mercy triumphs over judgment.




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