LORD, My God!

LORD, my God!

Let me have pleasures in your tabernacle.

Let me see your vineyards, and your tabrets of gold.

LORD, the wicked man with mischievous devices

Rises up against me.

LORD, to where should I turn?

 

LORD, to Whom shall I turn?

Shall I turn to the Egyptian

Whose strength is Pharaoh?

Shall I turn to the Assyrian

Who is Your rod

To break the wicked nations?

Shall I turn to Sheshak

With all his greatness?

Where? Where shall I turn?

Whom shall I turn to?

 

LORD. in these nations there is no help.

Though my friends rise up against me

Though a host encamps against me

LORD, I know You are with me.

LORD, I know Your strength will feed me

Against the wind of their chaff

And their devices.

 

LORD, I am greatly anguished

So that I cannot sleep.

My flesh groans all night

Because of my mourning

And my sleep is very thin.

LORD, when I awake, LORD

Are the winds ever against me?

Surely You know, LORD.

 

To Whom shall I trust?

To Whom shall I go for answers?

The whirring winds?

LORD, You are a God Who is near

And before the troublesome waves have stirred

LORD, I have asked of You good things.

I have asked, and You have provided.

My heart was not lifted up against mine enemies.

 

LORD, wicked things were said of paradise

Before my face.

It was said, “Because you do not know

“You do not know this earth

“After you go to paradise…”

LORD, surely, You have great pleasures stored up for us

Even grains and great soups and good offerings.

LORD, like a woman in travail

We shall give birth

And not to wind

Nor to vanity.

We shall give birth

And shall tabernacle in Your house for eternity.

For, LORD, heaven is wondrous

And the works of your hands

And the foundations of my houses

LORD, surely You know and have set them

And they are great.

For in the paradise of our LORD

There is a city, a city called Zion

And there are houses, and mansions

And great feasts

And great pleasures for eternity.

Our sin has been cast away,

And Zion rejoices.

Our sin, let Israel now say,

Has been cast to the bottom of the sea.

As for me, I was as a dead man

And You delivered me.

I was speechless, and dumb

And could not execute judgment for myself.

For ones too strong rose up against me

And sought to beset my soul

With lies, in order to turn the path of the murderer.

But, LORD, I testified before his face what were his sins.

And he did not answer

For my wisdom excelled.

No, he rather listened

And it was not wind

Nor was it chaff that I said.

I fed him, for his fathers have led him to err.

 

LORD, this is the people I dwell close to

Ones who honor you with their lips

But in their heart it is war.

In their heart it is great mischief and devices

And they seek to destroy me and my soul all day long

Even to lie about your paradise.

LORD, all knowledge rests with those who go to Your kingdom.

All wisdom and all glory

And we, we, Your saints,

Shall rule with You.

Yet, not yet, and my heart was haughty

Like Tyre, therefore, curses were among me

For my haughtiness and my sin.

Yet, for my repentance, and my patience

LORD, You will reward me.

 

Shall the wicked turn from his sin?

Shall the robbers turn from their sins?

Shall they, and pay back what they have stolen?

Shall they? Certainly they shall not hear

A word about their sins

If they do, and they shall grow as a cedar planted by waters

And You, You shall restore them

If, if they turn from their sins.

 

Yet, they shall not.

They shall continue in their wickedness,

And shall not be made straight

LORD, for they have sinned, and erred grievously against You

Even to Blaspheme your Holy One.

They have caused many to err

And have caused the righteous to err in judgment

And therefore bring a curse upon his head.

For he was set like a cedar by a river

Until the destroyer came into his life

And wrecked his vineyards

And spoiled his vines.

LORD, he did nothing so evil

But LORD, You shall pay recompense against those who besiege Jerusalem.

You shall pay recompense against those who besiege Judah.

LORD, even those round about Israel, let Israel now say

Even these, even those who set about Ephraim

Even these shall be saved, those who are to deliver your people.

But, to those who fight against us

LORD, these shall not be saved.

These shall be as stubble in the great furnace.

 

LORD, the greatness of Your mercy is kind.

And LORD, great things await those who wait on You

For in Zion, yes, in Zion, we shall no longer sin.

We shall no longer have sin, nor sinful thought

Nor deed. For heaven is glorious

And greatly to be feared is God

For creating such a place

Of sprawling forests,

And waters and rivers,

And the holy City of Zion

And the peaceful rivers of Ezekiel

And the cities, and the surrounding

Wastes shall be where the wicked go

To be feasted on by the worm

Outside the gates of Zion.

A continual feast, a continual weeping

A continual gnashing of teeth, shall the worm

Cause those who have deeply revolted from Your truth

Even to scourge the jewel which mine own eyes

Have seen.

For great pleasures shall be laid for eternity

And activity for the saints

And death, yes, the grave

Shall be for the sinner.

Great love shall be for those who trust in Your Name

Jesus, yet for the sinner, they shall fall by the sword

And be slain all at once.

They shall no longer rise up against Your servant Israel

And they shall be feasted on sweetly by the worm.