When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. Interlude

地和其上的居民都消化了；我曾立了地的柱子。细拉

地和其上的居民都熔化了；我亲自坚立地的柱子。（细拉）

地和其上的居民都熔化了；我亲自坚立地的柱子。（细拉）

大地震动，世人战抖的时候，是我使地的根基稳固。（细拉）

地和地上的居民都因惧怕而融化，我却使大地的柱子坚立。（细拉）

大地和其上所有的居民都消融时，是我稳固了大地的柱子。细拉

地和其上的居民都消化了；我曾立了地的柱子。（細拉）

地和其上的居民都熔化了；我親自堅立地的柱子。（細拉）

地和其上的居民都熔化了；我親自堅立地的柱子。（細拉）

大地震動，世人戰抖的時候，是我使地的根基穩固。（細拉）

地和地上的居民都因懼怕而融化，我卻使大地的柱子堅立。（細拉）

地和地上的居民都震撼崩潰，而我呢，我卻使地的柱子穩定。（細拉）

大地和其上所有的居民都消融時，是我穩固了大地的柱子。細拉

地與居民潰亂、其柱乃我所立兮、

斯土喪敗、民人離散、惟余為國之棟兮、

大地以及居民、盡皆消滅、惟我必堅定其柱、細拉、

主曰時熟。將行讞鞫。彰我正義。賞善罰惡。

When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.

When the earth and all its people tremble, I keep everything from falling to pieces.

When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the one who steadies its pillars. Selah

The earth and all who inhabit it are unsteady; It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it.[ Selah

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the One who steadies its pillars. Selah

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, I make its pillars secure.”( Selah)

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump. He sets them among princes, placing them in seats of honor. For all the earth is the Lord’s, and he has set the world in order.

The earth has broken up. It has utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken.

This was their song:“ Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands!”

Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people— his special possession.Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved.There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth.He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants— God’s own people, Israel.He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands.

You have rejected us, O God, and broken our defenses. You have been angry with us; now restore us to your favor.You have shaken our land and split it open. Seal the cracks, for the land trembles.You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.

In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the Lord told you,‘ You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be Israel’s leader.’”

The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.

Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people.Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors— none will be spared.The earth will be completely emptied and looted. The Lord has spoken!The earth mourns and dries up, and the land wastes away and withers. Even the greatest people on earth waste away.The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God’s instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must pay the price for their sin. They are destroyed by fire, and only a few are left alive.The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.The cheerful sound of tambourines is stilled; the happy cries of celebration are heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp are silent.Gone are the joys of wine and song; alcoholic drink turns bitter in the mouth.The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out intruders.Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land.The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down.

This is what the Lord says:“ At just the right time, I will respond to you. On the day of salvation I will help you. I will protect you and give you to the people as my covenant with them. Through you I will reestablish the land of Israel and assign it to its own people again.

Please forgive me if I have offended you in any way. The Lord will surely reward you with a lasting dynasty, for you are fighting the Lord’s battles. And you have not done wrong throughout your entire life.

Now the Philistines attacked Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them. Many were slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa.The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and they killed three of his sons— Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malkishua.The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him severely.Saul groaned to his armor bearer,“ Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king.So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and his troops all died together that same day.When the Israelites on the other side of the Jezreel Valley and beyond the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.