Psalms 37:1
He Will Not Forsake His Saints
▼▼This psalm is an acrostic poem, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet Of David.
1 bFret not yourself because of evildoers;be not cenvious of wrongdoers!
Psalms 73:2
2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,my steps had nearly slipped.
Psalms 73:17-18
17until I went into dthe sanctuary of God;then I discerned their eend.
18 Truly you set them in fslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
Ecclesiastes 8:14
Man Cannot Know God’s Ways
14There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people gto whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people hto whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.Jeremiah 12:1
Jeremiah’s Complaint
1 iRighteous are you, O Lord,when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
jWhy does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all kwho are treacherous thrive?
Jeremiah 12:3
3 lBut you, O Lord, know me;myou see me, and test my heart toward you.
nPull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and set them apart for othe day of slaughter.
Habakkuk 1:13-14
13You who are pof purer eyes than to see eviland cannot look at wrong,
qwhy do you idly look at traitors
and rremain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
14You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
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