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 “If his children forsake my law * and do not walk according to my judgments;

If they break my statutes * and do not keep my commandments;

I will punish their transgressions with a rod * and their iniquities with the lash;

But I will not take my love from him, * nor let my faithfulness prove false.

I will not break my covenant, * nor change what has gone out of my lips.

Once for all I have sworn by my holiness: * ‘I will not lie to David.

His line shall endure for ever * and his throne as the sun before me;

It shall stand fast for evermore like the moon, * the abiding witness in the sky.’”

But you have cast off and rejected your anointed; * you have become enraged at him.

You have broken your covenant with your servant, * defiled his crown, and hurled it to the ground.

You have breached all his walls * and laid his strongholds in ruins.

All who pass by despoil him; * he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes * and made all his enemies rejoice.

You have turned back the edge of his sword * and have not sustained him in battle.