Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!
Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
“‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
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