Happiness comes from having your rebellion taken away, from having your failure completely covered. Happiness comes from YHWH not counting your mistakes, from having nothing to hide. As long as I kept my stubborn silence, my bones grew weak because of my constant complaints. Day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped by a summer's heat.

Finally I admitted my sin to you, and stopped hiding my guilt. I said, "I confess my rebellion, YHWH," and you took away the guilt of my sin. That's why people of faith everywhere should pray to you—they'll find you. Even when the flood begins rising, it will never touch them. You are my hiding place; you'll protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of freedom.

"I'll teach you and show you the way you should walk; I will counsel you, and keep watch over you. Be wise! Don't be like horses and mules, who need to be harnessed with bit and bridle before they'll come to you." Wrongdoers are prone to many sorrows, but those who trust in YHWH are surrounded with unfailing love. Be glad in YHWH and rejoice, you who love justice! Exult, you upright of heart!

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you." He said to them, "Go and tell that fox for me, 'Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.'

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, 'Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.'"