³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God,^(A) who answered me in the day of my distress^(B) and who has been with me wherever I have gone.^(C)”

¹⁵ Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the Lord was against them^(A) to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.^(B)

⁴ But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him,^(A) and he was found by them.

Psalm 4^[a]

For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.

Psalm 120

A song of ascents.