Psalms 74:1

²⁰The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

³Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

¹³So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

⁹But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

⁷for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

¹I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ²God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

¹¹Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

³¹You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD.”

⁵How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

³²“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.