UST PSA Chapter 53

53 This is a note for the worship leader: this song the tune of “Weakness.”

1 People who do not want to obey God tell themselves that God does not exist.

People like that are bad. They do terrible things.

Every one of them acts wickedly.

2 God looks down from heaven at the people on the earth.

He wants to find out whether any of them are wise and want to know him.

3 But they have all chosen to disobey God.

They have all become bad people.

Every single one of them acts wickedly.

4 They take away people’s possessions until they have nothing left.

They do that as easily as they would eat a loaf of bread.

The people who do such bad things ought to realize that God is going to punish them.

But they do not worship God.

5 An army came and attacked the Israelites.

Its soldiers did not have to be afraid that the Israelites would defeat them.

But God made them lose in battle so badly that the survivors were not even able to bury the dead soldiers.

This made them very afraid.

God regarded this army as insignificant compared with his great power.

He helped the Israelites, and so they were able to humiliate those soldiers by defeating them.

6 I wish that God, whose sanctuary is on Mount Zion, would rescue the Israelite people!

When God makes his people prosperous again, the Israelites, those descendants of Jacob, will be very happy.