²⁸ for kingship belongs to the Lord;
He rules over the nations.^(A)

⁷ Sing a song of wisdom,^[a]
for God is King of all the earth.^(A)

¹⁹ Listen—the cry of my dear^[a] people
from a far away land,
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion,^(A)
her King not within her?”
Why have they provoked me to anger
with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?^(B)