Arise, Adonai! Deliver me, my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek. You shatter the teeth of the wicked.
Jeremiah 3:23 - Tree of Life Version Surely help from the hills is a delusion— the commotion of the mountains! Surely in Adonai Eloheinu is the salvation of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Truly in vain is the hope of salvation from the hills and from the tumult and noisy throng on the mountains; truly in and with the Lord our God rests the salvation of Israel. American Standard Version (1901) Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. Common English Bible Surely what happens on the hills is a waste, as is the uproar on the mountains. Only in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version Truly, the hills were liars, with the multitude of the mountains. Truly, the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. |
Arise, Adonai! Deliver me, my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek. You shatter the teeth of the wicked.
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my strong tower—I will not be moved.
A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory comes from Adonai.
Yet it will come about in that day that the remnant of Israel— those of the house of Jacob who escaped— will never again depend on the one who struck them down, but will depend upon Adonai, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord Adonai is my strength and my song. He also has become my salvation.”
Those who fashion idols are empty. Their precious things do not profit. Their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be put to shame.
Israel has been saved by Adonai with an everlasting salvation. You will not be put to shame or disgraced, for ever and ever.
“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols have no knowledge, praying to a god who cannot save.
“Who is this coming from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah? This One splendid in His apparel, pressing forward in His great might?” “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
For You are our Father— even if Abraham would not know us or Israel not recognize us. You, Adonai, are our Father, our Redeemer— from everlasting is Your Name.
O hope of Israel, Savior in time of trouble, why are You like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who stays for a night?
Heal me, Adonai, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved. For You are my praise.
So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.
Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and I will gather them from the ends of the earth— among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant together with she who is in labor with child. A great throng will return here.
When I brought them into the land, which I lifted up My hand to give to them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree. There they slaughtered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offering. There they made their soothing aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
But on the house of Judah I will have compassion and deliver them by Adonai, their God, yet not by bow, sword or battle, nor by horses and horsemen.”
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.