But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.