And although you were ¹  dead ²  in your transgressions and sins,

You also lived your lives ¹  in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

So I gave orders, ¹  and it was determined ²  that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in ³  rebellion and revolt.

For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. ²  O God, we have clearly heard; ³  our ancestors ⁴  have told us what you did ⁵  in their days, in ancient times. ⁶ 

Remember your people ¹  whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued ²  so they could be your very own nation, ³  as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. ¹  For I know that you are very deceitful; ²  you were labeled ³  a rebel from birth.

Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod, ¹  the flock that belongs to you, ²  the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. ³  Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, ⁴  as they did in the old days. ⁵ 

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures. ¹ 

I recall the old days; ¹  I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments. ² 

who leaves ¹  the husband ²  from her younger days, ³  and forgets her marriage covenant ⁴  made before God. ⁵ 

When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, ¹  you came down, and the mountains trembled ²  before you.

I granted ¹  you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

Others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets from the past.”

Jesus ¹  asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Woe to you! You build ¹  the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors ²  killed.

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

He did this by predestining ¹  us to adoption as his ²  sons ³  through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure ⁴  of his will –

so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth –

teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

then I will bring you down to bygone people, ¹  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ²  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ³  in the land of the living.