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All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
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The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
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All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
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“Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
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But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
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My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
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Psalm 60
For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us; you have been angry—now restore us!
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Have regard for your covenant, because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
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they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
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their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
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Psalm 80
For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm.
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
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You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,
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I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.
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I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.
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You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
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with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
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He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations,
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the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
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He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
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for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
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He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.
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He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever— holy and awesome is his name.
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If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”
