How Long, O Lord?

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

⁵ And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, ⁶ and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not ^(A)God in heaven? You ^(B)rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. ^(C)In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. ⁷ Did you not, our God, ^(D)drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of ^(E)Abraham your friend? ⁸ And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, ^9 (F)‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,^[a] or pestilence, or famine, ^(G)we will stand before this house and before you—^(H)for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ ¹⁰ And now behold, the men of ^(I)Ammon and Moab and ^(J)Mount Seir, whom ^(K)you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, ^(L)and whom they avoided and did not destroy— ¹¹ behold, they reward us ^(M)by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. ¹² O our God, will you not ^(N)execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but ^(O)our eyes are on you.”

^7 (A)You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying ^(B)the truth? ⁸ This persuasion is not from ^(C)him who calls you. ^9 (D)A little leaven leavens the whole lump. ^10 (E)I have confidence in the Lord that you will ^(F)take no other view, and ^(G)the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. ¹¹ But if I, brothers,^[a] still preach^[b] circumcision, ^(H)why am I still being persecuted? In that case ^(I)the offense of the cross has been removed. ¹² I wish ^(J)those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!