⁷ Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
    ^(A)Has the Lord grown impatient?^[a]
    Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
    to him who walks uprightly?

¹¹ For the Lord God is ^(A)a sun and ^(B)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
^(C)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who ^(D)walk uprightly.

¹⁶ Your words were found, ^(A)and I ate them,
    and ^(B)your words became to me a joy
    and the delight of my heart,
^(C)for I am called by your name,
    O Lord, God of hosts.

^2 (A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
^(C)Behold, by my rebuke ^(D)I dry up the sea,
    ^(E)I make the rivers a desert;
^(F)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

^18 (A)Whoever ^(B)walks in integrity will be delivered,
    but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

^29 (A)The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,
    but destruction to evildoers.