Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land(A) before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?(B)

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Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
    when God’s intimate friendship(A) blessed my house,(B)

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17 Do not be a terror(A) to me;
    you are my refuge(B) in the day of disaster.(C)

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23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[a](A) and he was called God’s friend.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. James 2:23 Gen. 15:6

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.

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