What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.