Study Desk

For the music director; on the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!

Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, near your altars, O Yahweh of hosts, my king and my God.

O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts you.

If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.

For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,

For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,

Why do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?" declares the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

Yahweh of hosts said in my ears: Surely many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.

But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become like the stench, and their blossom will go up like the dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.

And the one called to the other and said, "Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory."

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am living among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is your fear, and he is your dread.

Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.

His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.

And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. People had no compassion toward each other.

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.