The Confidence of the Foolish

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

^3 (A)and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will ^(B)tingle.

⁴ “Because they ^(A)have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with ^(B)the blood of the innocents