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126 Lord, it is time for you to act,
    for these evil people have violated your instructions.

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“‘How can you say, “We are wise because we have the word of the Lord,”
    when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?

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In this way, you say they don’t need to honor their parents.[a] And so you cancel the word of God for the sake of your own tradition.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:6 Greek their father; other manuscripts read their father or their mother.

But you priests have left God’s paths. Your instructions have caused many to stumble into sin. You have corrupted the covenant I made with the Levites,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

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The law has become paralyzed,
    and there is no justice in the courts.
The wicked far outnumber the righteous,
    so that justice has become perverted.

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14 If God’s promise is only for those who obey the law, then faith is not necessary and the promise is pointless.

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31 Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.

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19 Arise, O Lord!
    Do not let mere mortals defy you!
    Judge the nations!

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14 He will say, “I have long been silent;
    yes, I have restrained myself.
But now, like a woman in labor,
    I will cry and groan and pant.

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13 You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem[a]
    and now is the time to pity her,
    now is the time you promised to help.

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Footnotes

  1. 102:13 Hebrew Zion; also in 102:16.

36 “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people,
    and he will change his mind about[a] his servants,
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave or free.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:36 Or will take revenge for.

14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

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10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. 11 At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”

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