Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone.”
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.
For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them.
In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called.
He heard my voice from his temple,
and my cry for help was to his ears.
but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.
“Even I will not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in my spirit’s anguish;
I will complain in my inner self’s bitterness.
Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of humankind is futile.
In the day of my trouble I call to you,
because you answer me.
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,
and there are no works like yours.
He will call upon me and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue and honor him.
This is my comfort in my misery:
that your word preserves my life.
The wicked earns deceptive gain,
but he who sows righteousness, a true reward.
If you faint on the day of adversity,
little is your strength.
For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm,
a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall,
O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold,
and my refuge in the day of distress,
to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth,
and they will say, “Our ancestors have inherited only lies,
vanity, and there is no profit in them.
We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.
Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.
who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.