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* A Psalm of Asaph . Truly God is good to Israel , to those who are of a pure heart . * And as for me , my feet had almost stumbled , my steps nearly made to slip . * For I was jealous of the proud ; I looked upon the peace of the wicked . * For there are no pangs to their death ; but their body is fat . * They are not in the misery of mortal man ; and with men they are not touched . * So pride enchains them ; violence covers them like a robe . * Their eyes go out with fatness ; they have passed the imaginations of the heart . * They scoff and speak in malice ; from on high they speak cruelty . * They set their mouth in the heavens ; and their tongues walk through the earth . * Because of this His people shall return here ; and waters of a full cup shall be drained by them . * And they say , How does God know ? And , Is there knowledge in the Most High ? * Behold ! These are the ungodly who are always at ease ; they increase their riches . * Surely I have purified my heart in vain ; and I have washed my hands in innocence . * For all the day long I was touched ; and my chastening is at the mornings . * If I say , This is the way I will speak ; behold , I would deceive a generation of Your sons . * And although I thought , that I might understand this , it was painful in my eyes , * until I went into the sanctuary of God ; now I understood their end . * Surely , You will set their feet in slippery places ; You will make them fall into ruin . * How they are destroyed in a moment , swept away with terrors ! * Like a dream at the time from dreaming , O Lord , in awaking You will despise their image . * For my heart was in a ferment , and I was pierced in my reins . * And I was brutish and did not know ; I was like animals with You . * Yet I was continually with You ; You have taken hold of my right hand . * You shall guide me by Your counsel ; and afterward You will take me to glory . * Whom have I in Heaven ? And I have no desire on earth besides You . * My flesh and my heart waste away ; God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever . * For , lo , those who are far from You shall be lost ; You have cut off all who go whoring away from You . * As for me , it is good for me to draw near to God ; I have made my refuge in the Lord Jehovah , to declare all Your works . * A Lesson , of Asaph . O God , have You cast us off forever ; will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture ? * Remember Your congregation ; You purchased them in days before ; You redeemed us as the rod of Your inheritance , this Mount Zion in which You have dwelt . * Lift up Your steps to the perpetual desolations , the enemy who has done all evil in the sanctuary . * Your vexers have roared in the middle of Your congregation ; they set up their own signs for signs . * He is known as one bringing axes in on high , against the thick trees . * And now together they break down its carved work with the axe and hammers . * They have cast fire in Your sanctuary ; they have polluted the place where Your name dwells on the earth . * They said in their hearts , Let us rage against them together ; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land . * We did not see our signs ; there is no longer a prophet ; nor any among us who knows until when . * O God , until when shall the enemy defame You ? Shall the enemy scorn Your name forever ? * Why do You withdraw Your hand , even Your right hand ? From out of Your bosom , consume them . * For God is my King of old , who works salvation in the midst of the land . * You broke the sea by Your strength ; You burst the heads of sea-monsters in the waters . * You cracked open the heads of leviathan ; You gave him to be food for the people of the wilderness . * You divided the fountain and the torrent ; You dried up mighty rivers . * The day is Yours , the night is also Yours . You have established the light and the sun . * You have fixed the boundaries of the earth ; You have formed the summer and winter . * Remember this : the enemy has defamed , O Jehovah ; and a foolish people have scorned Your name . * Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beasts ; You will not forever forget the life of Your afflicted ones . * Look to Your covenant ; for the dark places of the earth are full , the abodes of violence . * O let not the ill-treated ones turn back ashamed ; let the poor and needy praise Your name . * Arise , O God , contend for Your cause ; remember Your reproach from the fool all the day . * Do not forget the voice of Your enemies ; the noise of those rising up against You is going up continually . * To the chief musician . Do not destroy . A Psalm of Asaph . A Songs . We have given thanks to You , O God ; we have given thanks ; for Your name is near ; Your wonderful works have been told . * When I take the appointed time , I shall judge in uprightness . * The earth and all of its inhabitants are melting away ; I set firm its pillars . Selah . * I said to the boastful , Do not boast ; and to the wicked , Do not lift up the horn . * Do not lift up your horn on high ; do not speak with a stiff neck . * For exaltations are not from the east , nor from the west , nor from the desert ; * but God is the judge ; He puts down this one and lifts up this other . * For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah ; and the wine foams ; it is fully mixed , and He pours out from it ; surely all the wicked of the earth must drain its dregs and drink . * But I will witness forever ; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob . * And I will cut off all the horns of the wicked ; but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up . * To the chief musician . For stringed instruments . A Psalm of Asaph . A Song of Praise . God is known in Judah ; His name is great in Israel . * And His abode is in Salem ; and His dwelling-place in Zion . * There He broke the fiery arrows of the bow , the shield , and the sword , and the battle . Selah . * You are glorious , more excellent than the mountains of prey . * The stouthearted have been stripped ; they slept their sleep ; and none of the men of might have found their hands . * By Your rebuke , O God of Jacob , both the horse and chariot have sunk into a sleep . * You , even You , are terrifying ; and who can stand before You when You are angry ? * You have caused judgment to be heard from Heaven ; the earth feared and was stilled ; * when God arose to judgment , to save all the meek of the earth . Selah . * For the wraths of man thank You ; You encircle Yourself with the wraths left over . * Vow and pay to Jehovah your God ; let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One . * He shall cut off the spirit in princes ; He is feared by the kings of the earth . * To the chief musician . On Jeduthun . A Psalm of Asaph . My voice is to God , and I cry ; my voice is to God , and He listened to me . * In the day of my distress I sought the Lord ; my hand was open in the night and did not grow numb ; my soul refused to be comforted . * I remember God and am troubled ; I meditate and my spirit faints . Selah . * You seized the watches of my eyes ; I am troubled , and I cannot speak . * I thought upon the days of old , the years of bygone ages . * I will remember my song in the night ; I will speak with my own heart , and my spirit carefully searches . * Will the lord cast off forever ; and will He not add to be pleased any more ? * Is His mercy gone forever ? Has His word failed for all generations ? * Has God forgotten to be gracious ; has He in anger shut up His tender mercies ? Selah . * And I said , This is my sickness , the years of the right hand of the Most High ; * I will remember the works of Jehovah ; surely I will remember Your wonders of old . * I will also meditate on all Your works and muse of Your doings . * O God , your way is in holiness ; who is a God great like God ? * You are the God who does wonders ; You have revealed Your strength among the peoples . * You have redeemed Your people with Your arm , the sons of Jacob and Joseph . Selah . * The waters saw You , O God , the waters saw You ; they were afraid ; yea , the deeps trembled . * The clouds poured out water ; the skies uttered a voice ; and Your arrows flew out . * The voice of Your thunder in the tempest ; lightnings lit up the world ; the earth trembled and quaked ! * Your way is in the sea ; and Your path is in the great waters ; and Your footsteps are not known . * You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron . * A Lesson of Asaph . O my people , listen to my law ; bow your ears to the words of my mouth . * I will open my mouth in a parable ; I will pour forth dark sayings of old , * those which we have heard and known , and our fathers have told us . * We will not hide them from their sons ; to declare to the coming generation the praises of Jehovah ; yea , His strength and His wonderful works that He has done . * For he raised a testimony in Jacob , and set a law in Israel ; which he commanded our fathers , to teach them to their sons ; * So that a coming generation may know ; sons shall be born ; they shall rise up and tell their sons , * so that they might set their hope in God , and not forget the works of God , but keep His commandments . * And they shall not be like their fathers , a stubborn and rebellious generation , a generation that prepared not its heart ; yea , whose spirit was not faithful with God . * The sons of Ephraim , armed shooters of bows , turned back in the day of battle . * They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law . * And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them ; * He did wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt , the field of Zoan . * He divided the sea and passed them through ; and He caused the waters to stand in a heap . * And He led them by a cloud in the day , and all the night with a light of fire . * He split the rocks in the wilderness and made them drink , as from great floods . * And He brought streams out of the rock , and caused waters to run down like torrents . * Yet they sinned still more against Him , to provoke the Most High in the desert . * And they tested God in their heart , by asking food for their souls . * And they spoke against God , saying , Shall God be able to set a table in the wilderness ? * Behold ! He struck the rock and the waters gushed out , and the torrents overflowed . Can He also give bread ? Will He provide flesh for His people ? * So Jehovah heard and He was made furious ; and a fire was kindled against Jacob , and also anger went up against Israel , * because they did not believe in God and trusted not in His salvation . * And He commanded the fine clouds above ; and He opened the doors of the heavens ; * and He rained on them manna to eat ; and He gave the grain of the heavens to them . * Man ate the bread of the mighty ; He sent them food to the full . * He made an east wind blow in the heavens ; and He led out the south wind by His power . * Yea , He rained flesh on them like dust , and winged birds as the sand of the seas . * And He made them fall amidst their camp , all around to their tents . * They ate and were filled full ; for their own lust He brought to them . * They were not estranged from their lust ; their food was still in their mouths , * and God 's wrath came on them and killed the fattest of them ; and He struck down the choice ones of Israel . * In all this they sinned still , and did not believe in His wonderful works ; * and He ended their days in vanity , and their years in sudden terror . * When He killed them , then they sought Him ; and they turned and searched for God . * So they remembered that God was their Rock , and the Most High God their Redeemer . * But they flattered Him with their mouths , and with their tongues lied to Him . * For their heart was not steadfast with Him ; and they were not faithful in His covenant . * But He being merciful atoned for iniquity and did not destroy ; and He added to turn away His anger , and did not stir up all his wrath . * For He remembered that they were flesh , a breath passing away , and not returning . * How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness , angering Him in the desert ! * Yea , they turned back and tested God , and pained the Holy One of Israel . * They did not remember His hand , on the day He redeemed them from the enemy ; * who set His signs in Egypt , and His wonders in the field of Zoan . * He turned their rivers into blood , also their streams that they might not drink . * He sent swarms of flies against them , and they devoured them ; also frogs , and they destroyed them . * He also gave their crops to the stripping locust , and their labor to the locust . * He killed their vines with hail , and their sycamore trees with sleet . * He gave their cattle up to the hail , and their flocks to bolts of fire . * He sent the heat of His anger on them , fury and indignation and distress , a sending of angels of evils . * He leveled a path for His anger ; He did not keep back their soul from death , but gave their life over to the plague . * And he struck all the first-born in Egypt , the firstfruits of strength in the tents of Ham ; * and He led His people forth like sheep ; and He led them like a flock in the wilderness . * And he led them on safely , and they did not fear ; but the sea flooded over their enemies . * He brought them to the border of His holy place ; this mountain that His right hand had gained . * And He cast out the nations before them ; and by a line He made a possession fall to them ; and He made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents . * Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God ; and they did not keep His testimonies ; * but they turned back and betrayed , like their fathers ; they veered aside like a deceitful bow . * For they enraged Him with their high places ; and they provoked Him to jealousy with their molten images . * When God heard , He was angry , and He utterly rejected Israel . * And He left the tabernacle of Shiloh ; the tent He dwelt in among men ; * and delivered His strength into captivity , and His glory into the enemy 's hands . * And He gave His people to the sword , and was angry with His inheritance . * The fire burned up their young men ; and their virgins were not praised . * Their priests fell by the sword ; and their widows were not able to weep . * Then the Lord awoke , as one asleep , like a mighty man rejoicing with wine . * And He drove His enemies backward ; He put them to a never-ending shame . * And He refused the tabernacle of Joseph , and He did not elect the tribe of Ephraim ; * But He chose the tribe of Judah , the Mount Zion which He loved . * And He built His sanctuary like high places , like the earth He has founded forever . * He also chose His servant David , and took him from the sheepfolds ; * He brought him in from the suckling ewes ; He brought him to feed His people Jacob , and His inheritance , Israel . * And he fed them in the integrity of his heart ; and guided them in the skillfulness of his hands . * A Psalm of Asaph . O God , the nations have come into Your inheritance ; they have defiled Your holy temple ; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps . * They have given the bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens ; the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth . * They have shed their blood like water all around Jerusalem , and there is no one burying . * We have become a shame to our neighbors a scorn and a mockery to those who are around us . * Until when , O Jehovah ? Will You be angry with us forever ? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire ? * Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You , and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name . * For they have eaten up Jacob , and laid waste to his dwelling-place . * Oh do not remember for us the sins of our first ones ; let Your tender mercies meet us speedily , for we have been brought very low . * Help us , O God of our salvation , for the matter of the glory of Your name ; and deliver us and atone for our sins , for Your name 's sake . * Why should the nations say , Where is their God ? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes , the avenging of the blood of Your servants that has been poured out . * Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You ; according to the greatness of Your arm , preserve the sons of death . * And reward our neighbors sevenfold , Give into their bosom their curse with which they have cursed You , O Lord . * Then we Your people , and sheep of Your pasture , will give thanks to You forever ; we will declare Your praise to all generations . * To the chief musician . A Testimony . Concerning the Lilies . A Psalm of Asaph . Give ear , O Shepherd of Israel , You leading Joseph like a flock ; shine forth , You dwelling between the cherubs . * Stir up Your might before Ephraim , and Benjamin , and Manasseh , and come for salvation . * O God , turn us again , and make Your face shine , and we will be saved ! * O Jehovah God of Hosts , until when will You smoke against the prayer of Your people ? * You made them eat with the bread of tears ; yea , You made them drink with tears a third time . * You make us a strife for our neighbors , and our enemies laugh to themselves . * O God of hosts , turn us again , and cause Your face to shine , and we will be saved . * You have led a vine out of Egypt ; You have cast out the nations , and have planted it . * You cleared before it , and You have rooted its roots ; and it has filled the land . * The hills were covered with its shadow ; and its boughs were as the cedars of God . * It was sending its boughs out to the sea , and its branches to the River . * Why have You broken down its walls , so that it is plucked by all who pass by the way ? * A boar out of the forest wastes it , and the beast of the field feeds on it . * O God of hosts , we beg You , return ! Look down from Heaven and see and visit this vine , * and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted , and on the Son You made strong for Yourself . * It is burned with fire , cut down ; they perish at the rebuke of Your face . * Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand ; on the Son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself . * So we will not backslide from You ; make us live , and we will call on Your name . * O Jehovah , God of hosts , turn us again ! Cause Your face to shine , and we will be saved . * To the chief musician . On Gittith . Of Asaph . Sing aloud to God our strength ; shout for joy to the God of Jacob . * Lift up a song , and the timbrel , the pleasing lyre with the harp . * Blow the ram 's horn in the new moon , at the full moon , on our feast day . * For this was a statute for Israel , an ordinance of the God of Jacob . * This He ordained as a testimony in Joseph , when He went out over the land of Egypt ; I heard a lip I did not understand . * I removed his shoulder from the burden ; his hands were freed from the basket . * You called in distress , and I rescued you ; I answered you in the secret place of thunder ; I tested you at the waters of Meribah . Selah . * My people , listen , and I will testify against you , whether you will listen to Me : * There shall be no strange god among you ; nor shall you worship a foreign god . * I am Jehovah your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt ; open your mouth wide , and I will fill it . * But My people would not listen to My voice , and Israel did not consent to Me . * So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts ; they walked in their own conceits . * Oh if My people had listened to me ! If Israel had walked in My ways , * I would have subdued their enemies in a little ; and I would have turned My hand against their foes . * the haters of Jehovah shall be found untrue to Him , and their time is forever . * Yea , He would have caused them to eat from the fat of the wheat ; and I would have satisfied you with honey out of the rock . * A Psalm of Asaph God stands in the assembly of God ; He judges in the midst of the gods . * Until when will you judge unjustly , and lift up the faces of the wicked ? Selah . * Judge the poor and fatherless ; do justice to the afflicted and needy . * Deliver the poor and needy ; save out of the hand of the wicked . * They neither know nor will understand ; they walk in darkness ; all the foundations of the earth are shaken . * I have said , You are gods , and all of you are sons of the Most High . * But you shall die as men , and fall like one of the rulers . * Rise , O God , judge the earth ; for You shall inherit in all the nations . * A Songs . A Psalm of Asaph . O God do not keep silence to Yourself ; do not be speechless ; yea , do not be still , O God . * For lo , Your enemies are roaring ; and those who hate You have lifted up their head . * They take shrewd counsel against Your people ; they plot against Your hidden ones . * They have said , Come , and we will cut them off from being a nation ; and , The name of Israel will not be recalled again . * For they plotted to together with one heart ; they have cut a covenant against You ; * even the tents of Edom , and of the Ishmaelites ; Moab and the Hagarites ; * Gebal and Ammon , and Amalek ; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre . * Also Assyria has joined with them ; they were an arm to the sons of Lot . Selah . * Do to them as to Midian , as to Sisera , as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon . * At Endor they were destroyed ; they became dung for the ground . * Make their nobles as Oreb and Zeeb , and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna ; * who said , Let us take possession of God 's pastures for ourselves . * O my God , make them as whirling dust , as the stubble before the wind . * As the fire burns a forest , and as the flame sets the mountains on fire , * so pursue them with Your tempest , and frighten them with Your storm . * Fill their faces with shame and they will seek Your name , O Jehovah . * Let them be ashamed and terrified for ever ; yea , let them be confounded and perish . * And let them know Your name is Jehovah , that You alone are the Most High over all the earth . * To the chief musician . On Gittith . A Psalm for the sons of Korah . How lovely are Your dwellings , O Jehovah of hosts ! * My soul longs and even faints for the courts of Jehovah ; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God . * Even the sparrow has found a house , and the swallow a nest for herself , where she may lay her young , on Your altars , O Jehovah of hosts , my King and my God . * Blessed are they who dwell in Your house ; they will always be praising You . * Blessed is the man whose strength is in You ; Your ways are in their hearts . * Passing through the valley of weeping , they will make it a fountain ; even the early rain covers with blessings . * They go from strength to strength , being seen in Zion before God . * O Jehovah God of hosts , hear my prayer ; listen , O God of Jacob . Selah . * Behold , O God , our shield ; and look upon the face of Your anointed . * For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand ; I have chosen to stand at the threshold in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tents of wickedness . * For Jehovah God is a sun and shield ; Jehovah will give grace and glory ; He will withhold nothing good from those who walk in integrity . * O Jehovah of hosts , blessed is the man who trusts in You ! * To the chief musician . A Psalm for the sons of Korah . O Jehovah , You have been gracious to Your land ; You have turned back the captivity of Jacob . * You have taken away the iniquity of Your people ; You covered all of their sins . Selah . * You gathered all of Your wrath ; You turned from the heat of Your anger . * O God of our salvation , turn us , and break up Your anger with us . * Will You be angry with us forever ? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations ? * Will You give us life anew , so that Your people may rejoice in You ? * Cause us to see Your mercy , O Jehovah , and give us Your salvation . * I will hear what Jehovah God will say ; for He will speak peace to His people , and His saints ; but let them not turn again to folly . * Surely His salvation is near to fearers of Him , for glory to dwell in our land . * Mercy and truth have met together ; righteousness and peace kissed each other . * Truth shall sprout out of the earth , and righteousness looks down from Heaven . * Yea , Jehovah shall give good , and our land shall give its produce . * Righteousness shall go before Him and shall make a way for His footsteps . * A Prayer of David O Jehovah , bow down Your ear , answer me , for I am poor and needy . * Guard my soul , for I am godly ; O You my God , save Your servant who trusts in You . * Be gracious to Me , O Lord , for I cry to You daily . * Give joy to the soul of Your servant ; for to You , O Lord , I lift up my soul . * For You , O Lord , are good and ready to forgive , and rich in mercy to all who call on You . * O Lord , give ear to my prayer ; listen to my voice of supplications . * I will call on You in the day of my trouble , for You will answer me . * None among the gods is like You , O Lord , and none are like Your works . * All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You ; yea , Lord , they shall glorify Your name . * For You are great and do wonderful things ; You alone are God . * Teach me Your way , O Jehovah ; I will walk in your truth ; unite my heart to fear Your name . * With all my heart I will thank You , O Lord my God ; and I will glorify Your name forevermore . * For Your mercy toward me is great ; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol . * O God , the proud have risen against me ; and the troop of the violent have sought after my life , and have not set You before their eyes . * But You , O God , are God , full of pity ; and gracious , longsuffering and rich in mercy and truth . * O turn to me and be gracious to me ; give Your strength to Your servant , and save the son of Your handmaid . * Show me a token for good , that those who hate me may see and be ashamed , O Jehovah , because You have helped me and comforted me . * For the Sons of Korah . A Psalm . A Songs . His foundation is in the holy mountains . * Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the tents of Jacob . * Glorious things are spoken of you , O city of God . Selah . * I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me ; behold , Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia ; this man was born there . * And it shall be said to Zion , This man and that man was born in her ; and the Highest Himself shall establish her . * In recording the peoples Jehovah shall mark down , This man was born there . Selah . * And the singers , the players of the pipe : all my springs are in You . * A Songs . A Psalm for the Sons of Korah , to the chief musician on Mahalath , to make humble . A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite . O Jehovah God of my salvation , I have cried in the day , in the night before You . * Let my prayer come before You ; bow down Your ear to my cry . * For my soul is full with evils , and my life touches Sheol . * I am counted with those who go down to the Pit ; I have been like a feeble man , * free among the dead , as pierced ones lying in the grave , whom You remember no more ; yea by Your hand they are cut off . * You have laid me in the lowest pit , in dark places ; in the deeps . * Your fury has lain hard upon me , and You afflict me with all Your waves . Selah . * You have taken my friends away from me ; You have made me a hateful thing to them ; I am shut up , I will not go out . * My eye mourns because of affliction ; O Jehovah , I have called on You every day ; I have spread out my hands to You . * For will You do wonders to the dead ? Or shall the departed spirits rise and thank You ? Selah . * Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave , Your faithfulness amidst ruin ? * Shall Your wonders be known in the dark , and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ? * But to You I have cried , O Jehovah ; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You . * O Jehovah , why do You cast off my soul ; why do You hide Your face from me ? * I am afflicted and dying from childhood ; I suffer Your terrors ; I am distracted . * Your fierce wrath goes over me ; Your terrors have cut me off . * They surrounded me like waters all the day long ; they have come together around me . * You have taken lover and friend far from me , he who knows me , into darkness . * A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite . I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah forever ; I will declare with my mouth Your faithfulness to all generations . * For I have said , Mercy shall be built up forever ; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens . * I have cut a covenant with My chosen ; I have sworn to David My servant , * I will establish Your seed forever , and build up Your throne to all generations . Selah . * And the heavens shall thank Your wonders , O Jehovah ; also Your faithfulness in the assembly of the saints . * For who in the sky shall be ranked with Jehovah , who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah ? * God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints , and to be adored by all around Him . * O Jehovah God of hosts , who is a strong Jehovah like You ? And Your faithfulness is all around You . * You rule the pride of the sea ; when its waves rise high , You still them . * You have broken Rahab in pieces , as one slain ; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm . * The heavens are Yours , and the earth is Yours ; the world and its fullness , You founded them . * You have created the north and the south ; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name . * You have a mighty arm ; Your hand is strong , Your right hand is high . * Justice and righteousness are Your throne 's foundation ; mercy and truth go before Your face . * Blessed is the people knowing the joyful sound ; O Jehovah , they shall walk in the light of Your face . * They shall rejoice in Your name always ; and they are exalted in Your righteousness . * For You are the glory of their strength ; and by Your favor You lift up our horn . * For Jehovah is our shield , yea , the Holy One of Israel our King . * Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one ; and You said , I have laid help on a mighty one . I have exalted a chosen one from the people . * I have found My servant David ; I have anointed him with My holy oil . * My hand shall be fixed with him ; and My arm shall make him strong . * An enemy will not exact against him ; nor the son of iniquity afflict him . * And I will beat down his foes before him , and plague those hating him . * But My faithfulness and My mercy is with him ; and his horn shall be exalted in My name . * And I will set his hand in the sea , and his right hand in the rivers . * He shall cry to Me , My Father , You are My God , and the rock of my salvation . * And I will make him My first-born , higher than the kings of the earth . * I will keep My mercy for Him forever , and My covenant shall hold fast with Him . * And I have established his Seed forever , and His throne as the days of the heavens . * If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments ; * if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments ; * then I will visit their transgressions with the rod , and their sins with stripes . * But I will not annul My mercy from him , and I will not be false in My faithfulness . * I will not profane My covenant , nor change what goes from My lips . * Once I have sworn by My holiness ; I will not lie to David . * His seed shall be forever , and his throne as the sun before Me . * Like the moon , it shall be forever ; and a faithful witness in the sky . Selah . * But You have cast off and rejected us ; You have been angry with Your anointed . * You have turned away from the covenant of your servant ; You have defiled his crown on the ground . * You have broken down all his hedges ; You have brought his strongholds to ruin . * All who pass by the way plunder him ; he is a curse to his neighbors . * You have set up the right hand of his enemies ; You have made all his enemies rejoice . * And you have turned back the edge of his sword , and have not held him up in battle . * You have made his glory to cease and have hurled his throne to the ground . * You have shortened the days of his youth ; You have covered him with shame . Selah . * O Jehovah , until when will You hide Yourself ? Shall Your wrath burn like fire forever ? * Remember , I pray , the time of life ; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men ? * What man lives and never sees death ? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol ? Selah . * Lord , where are Your former kindnesses that You swore to David in Your faithfulness ? * Remember , O Lord , the reproach of Your servants , my bearing in my bosom the insults of the many peoples ; * with which Your enemies have cursed , O Jehovah ; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed . * Blessed be Jehovah forever . Amen and amen ! * A Prayer of Moses , the Man of God . O Lord , You have been our dwelling-place in all generations .

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