Psalm 77:1-2

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Psalm 77^[a]

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.

¹I cried out to God^(A) for help;
    I cried out to God to hear me.
²When I was in distress,^(B) I sought the Lord;
    at night^(C) I stretched out untiring hands,^(D)
    and I would not be comforted.^(E)

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Footnotes

Psalm 77:1 In Hebrew texts 77:1-20 is numbered 77:2-21.

Psalm 77:11-20

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¹¹I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember your miracles^(A) of long ago.
¹²I will consider^(B) all your works
and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”^(C)

¹³Your ways, God, are holy.
    What god is as great as our God?^(D)
¹⁴You are the God who performs miracles;^(E)
    you display your power among the peoples.
¹⁵With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,^(F)
    the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

¹⁶The waters^(G) saw you, God,
    the waters saw you and writhed;^(H)
    the very depths were convulsed.
¹⁷The clouds poured down water,^(I)
    the heavens resounded with thunder;^(J)
    your arrows^(K) flashed back and forth.
¹⁸Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,^(L)
    your lightning^(M) lit up the world;
    the earth trembled and quaked.^(N)
¹⁹Your path^(O) led through the sea,^(P)
    your way through the mighty waters,
    though your footprints were not seen.

²⁰You led your people^(Q) like a flock^(R)
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.^(S)

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1 Kings 22:29-40

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Ahab Killed at Ramoth Gilead^(A)

²⁹So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. ³⁰The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise,^(B) but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

³¹Now the king of Aram^(C) had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king^(D) of Israel.” ³²When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, “Surely this is the king of Israel.” So they turned to attack him, but when Jehoshaphat cried out, ³³the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel and stopped pursuing him.

³⁴But someone drew his bow^(E) at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I’ve been wounded.” ³⁵All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died. ³⁶As the sun was setting, a cry spread through the army: “Every man to his town. Every man to his land!”^(F)

³⁷So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried him there. ³⁸They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),^[a] and the dogs^(G) licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.

³⁹As for the other events of Ahab’s reign, including all he did, the palace he built and adorned with ivory,^(H) and the cities he fortified, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? ⁴⁰Ahab rested with his ancestors. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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Footnotes

1 Kings 22:38 Or Samaria and cleaned the weapons

1 Kings 22:51-53

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Ahaziah King of Israel

⁵¹Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. ⁵²He did evil^(A) in the eyes of the Lord, because he followed the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. ⁵³He served and worshiped Baal^(B) and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father^(C) had done.

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2 Corinthians 13:5-10

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⁵Examine yourselves^(A) to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.^(B) Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you^(C)—unless, of course, you fail the test? ⁶And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. ⁷Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed. ⁸For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. ⁹We are glad whenever we are weak^(D) but you are strong;^(E) and our prayer is that you may be fully restored.^(F) ¹⁰This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh^(G) in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.^(H)