Psalms:73-89
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Truly God is good to Israel ,
even to such as are of a clean heart .
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But as for me ,
my feet were almost gone ;
my steps had well nigh slipped .
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For I was envious at the foolish ,
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked .
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For there are no bands in their death :
but their strength is firm .
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They are not in trouble as other men ;
neither are they plagued like other men .
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Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ;
violence covereth them as a garment .
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Their eyes stand out with fatness :
they have more than heart could wish .
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They are corrupt ,
and speak wickedly concerning oppression :
they speak loftily .
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They set their mouth against the heavens ,
and their tongue walketh through the earth .
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Therefore his people return hither :
and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them .
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And they say ,
How doth God know ?
and is there knowledge in the most High ?
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Behold ,
these are the ungodly ,
who prosper in the world ;
they increase in riches .
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Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain ,
and washed my hands in innocency .
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For all the day long have I been plagued ,
and chastened every morning .
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If I say ,
I will speak thus ;
behold ,
I should offend against the generation of thy children .
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When I thought to know this ,
it was too painful for me ;
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Until I went into the sanctuary of God ;
then understood I their end .
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Surely thou didst set them in slippery places :
thou castedst them down into destruction .
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How are they brought into desolation ,
as in a moment !
they are utterly consumed with terrors .
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As a dream when one awaketh ;
so ,
O Lord ,
when thou awakest ,
thou shalt despise their image .
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Thus my heart was grieved ,
and I was pricked in my reins .
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So foolish was I ,
and ignorant :
I was as a beast before thee .
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Nevertheless I am continually with thee :
thou hast holden me by my right hand .
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Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel ,
and afterward receive me to glory .
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Whom have I in heaven but thee ?
and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee .
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My flesh and my heart faileth :
but God is the strength of my heart ,
and my portion for ever .
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For ,
lo ,
they that are far from thee shall perish :
thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee .
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But it is good for me to draw near to God :
I have put my trust in the Lord GOD ,
that I may declare all thy works .
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O God ,
why hast thou cast us off for ever ?
why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture ?
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Remember thy congregation ,
which thou hast purchased of old ;
the rod of thine inheritance ,
which thou hast redeemed ;
this mount Zion ,
wherein thou hast dwelt .
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations ;
even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary .
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Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations ;
they set up their ensigns for signs .
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A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees .
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers .
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They have cast fire into thy sanctuary ,
they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground .
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They said in their hearts ,
Let us destroy them together :
they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land .
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We see not our signs :
there is no more any prophet :
neither is there among us any that knoweth how long .
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O God ,
how long shall the adversary reproach ?
shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever ?
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand ,
even thy right hand ?
pluck it out of thy bosom .
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For God is my King of old ,
working salvation in the midst of the earth .
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength :
thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters .
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces ,
and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness .
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood :
thou driedst up mighty rivers .
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The day is thine ,
the night also is thine :
thou hast prepared the light and the sun .
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth :
thou hast made summer and winter .
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Remember this ,
that the enemy hath reproached ,
O LORD ,
and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name .
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked :
forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever .
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Have respect unto the covenant :
for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty .
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed :
let the poor and needy praise thy name .
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Arise ,
O God ,
plead thine own cause :
remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily .
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies :
the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually .
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Unto thee ,
O God ,
do we give thanks ,
unto thee do we give thanks :
for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare .
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When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly .
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The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved :
I bear up the pillars of it .
Selah .
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I said unto the fools ,
Deal not foolishly :
and to the wicked ,
Lift not up the horn :
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Lift not up your horn on high :
speak not with a stiff neck .
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For promotion cometh neither from the east ,
nor from the west ,
nor from the south .
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But God is the judge :
he putteth down one ,
and setteth up another .
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For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup ,
and the wine is red ;
it is full of mixture ;
and he poureth out of the same :
but the dregs thereof ,
all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out ,
and drink them .
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But I will declare for ever ;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob .
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All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off ;
but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted .
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In Judah is God known :
his name is great in Israel .
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In Salem also is his tabernacle ,
and his dwelling place in Zion .
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There brake he the arrows of the bow ,
the shield ,
and the sword ,
and the battle .
Selah .
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Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey .
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The stouthearted are spoiled ,
they have slept their sleep :
and none of the men of might have found their hands .
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At thy rebuke ,
O God of Jacob ,
both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep .
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Thou ,
even thou ,
art to be feared :
and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry ?
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Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven ;
the earth feared ,
and was still ,
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When God arose to judgment ,
to save all the meek of the earth .
Selah .
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Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee :
the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain .
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Vow ,
and pay unto the LORD your God :
let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared .
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He shall cut off the spirit of princes :
he is terrible to the kings of the earth .
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I cried unto God with my voice ,
even unto God with my voice ;
and he gave ear unto me .
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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord :
my sore ran in the night ,
and ceased not :
my soul refused to be comforted .
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I remembered God ,
and was troubled :
I complained ,
and my spirit was overwhelmed .
Selah .
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Thou holdest mine eyes waking :
I am so troubled that I cannot speak .
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I have considered the days of old ,
the years of ancient times .
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I call to remembrance my song in the night :
I commune with mine own heart :
and my spirit made diligent search .
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Will the Lord cast off for ever ?
and will he be favourable no more ?
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Is his mercy clean gone for ever ?
doth his promise fail for evermore ?
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Hath God forgotten to be gracious ?
hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ?
Selah .
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And I said ,
This is my infirmity :
but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High .
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I will remember the works of the LORD :
surely I will remember thy wonders of old .
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I will meditate also of all thy work ,
and talk of thy doings .
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Thy way ,
O God ,
is in the sanctuary :
who is so great a God as our God ?
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Thou art the God that doest wonders :
thou hast declared thy strength among the people .
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Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people ,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph .
Selah .
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The waters saw thee ,
O God ,
the waters saw thee ;
they were afraid :
the depths also were troubled .
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The clouds poured out water :
the skies sent out a sound :
thine arrows also went abroad .
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The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven :
the lightnings lightened the world :
the earth trembled and shook .
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Thy way is in the sea ,
and thy path in the great waters ,
and thy footsteps are not known .
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Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron .
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Give ear ,
O my people ,
to my law :
incline your ears to the words of my mouth .
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I will open my mouth in a parable :
I will utter dark sayings of old :
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Which we have heard and known ,
and our fathers have told us .
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We will not hide them from their children ,
shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD ,
and his strength ,
and his wonderful works that he hath done .
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For he established a testimony in Jacob ,
and appointed a law in Israel ,
which he commanded our fathers ,
that they should make them known to their children :
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That the generation to come might know them ,
even the children which should be born ;
who should arise and declare them to their children :
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That they might set their hope in God ,
and not forget the works of God ,
but keep his commandments :
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And might not be as their fathers ,
a stubborn and rebellious generation ;
a generation that set not their heart aright ,
and whose spirit was not stedfast with God .
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The children of Ephraim ,
being armed ,
and carrying bows ,
turned back in the day of battle .
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They kept not the covenant of God ,
and refused to walk in his law ;
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And forgat his works ,
and his wonders that he had shewed them .
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers ,
in the land of Egypt ,
in the field of Zoan .
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He divided the sea ,
and caused them to pass through ;
and he made the waters to stand as an heap .
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In the daytime also he led them with a cloud ,
and all the night with a light of fire .
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He clave the rocks in the wilderness ,
and gave them drink as out of the great depths .
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He brought streams also out of the rock ,
and caused waters to run down like rivers .
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness .
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust .
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Yea ,
they spake against God ;
they said ,
Can God furnish a table in the wilderness ?
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Behold ,
he smote the rock ,
that the waters gushed out ,
and the streams overflowed ;
can he give bread also ?
can he provide flesh for his people ?
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Therefore the LORD heard this ,
and was wroth :
so a fire was kindled against Jacob ,
and anger also came up against Israel ;
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Because they believed not in God ,
and trusted not in his salvation :
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Though he had commanded the clouds from above ,
and opened the doors of heaven ,
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And had rained down manna upon them to eat ,
and had given them of the corn of heaven .
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Man did eat angels '
food :
he sent them meat to the full .
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He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven :
and by his power he brought in the south wind .
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust ,
and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea :
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And he let it fall in the midst of their camp ,
round about their habitations .
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So they did eat ,
and were well filled :
for he gave them their own desire ;
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They were not estranged from their lust .
But while their meat was yet in their mouths ,
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The wrath of God came upon them ,
and slew the fattest of them ,
and smote down the chosen men of Israel .
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For all this they sinned still ,
and believed not for his wondrous works .
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity ,
and their years in trouble .
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When he slew them ,
then they sought him :
and they returned and enquired early after God .
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And they remembered that God was their rock ,
and the high God their redeemer .
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Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth ,
and they lied unto him with their tongues .
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For their heart was not right with him ,
neither were they stedfast in his covenant .
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But he ,
being full of compassion ,
forgave their iniquity ,
and destroyed them not :
yea ,
many a time turned he his anger away ,
and did not stir up all his wrath .
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For he remembered that they were but flesh ;
a wind that passeth away ,
and cometh not again .
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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness ,
and grieve him in the desert !
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Yea ,
they turned back and tempted God ,
and limited the Holy One of Israel .
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They remembered not his hand ,
nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy .
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How he had wrought his signs in Egypt ,
and his wonders in the field of Zoan :
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And had turned their rivers into blood ;
and their floods ,
that they could not drink .
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He sent divers sorts of flies among them ,
which devoured them ;
and frogs ,
which destroyed them .
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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller ,
and their labour unto the locust .
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He destroyed their vines with hail ,
and their sycomore trees with frost .
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail ,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts .
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger ,
wrath ,
and indignation ,
and trouble ,
by sending evil angels among them .
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He made a way to his anger ;
he spared not their soul from death ,
but gave their life over to the pestilence ;
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And smote all the firstborn in Egypt ;
the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham :
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But made his own people to go forth like sheep ,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock .
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And he led them on safely ,
so that they feared not :
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies .
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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary ,
even to this mountain ,
which his right hand had purchased .
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He cast out the heathen also before them ,
and divided them an inheritance by line ,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents .
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God ,
and kept not his testimonies :
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But turned back ,
and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers :
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow .
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places ,
and moved him to jealousy with their graven images .
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When God heard this ,
he was wroth ,
and greatly abhorred Israel :
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So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh ,
the tent which he placed among men ;
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And delivered his strength into captivity ,
and his glory into the enemy '
s hand .
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He gave his people over also unto the sword ;
and was wroth with his inheritance .
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The fire consumed their young men ;
and their maidens were not given to marriage .
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Their priests fell by the sword ;
and their widows made no lamentation .
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Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep ,
and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine .
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts :
he put them to a perpetual reproach .
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Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph ,
and chose not the tribe of Ephraim :
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But chose the tribe of Judah ,
the mount Zion which he loved .
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And he built his sanctuary like high palaces ,
like the earth which he hath established for ever .
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He chose David also his servant ,
and took him from the sheepfolds :
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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people ,
and Israel his inheritance .
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart ;
and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands .
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O God ,
the heathen are come into thine inheritance ;
thy holy temple have they defiled ;
they have laid Jerusalem on heaps .
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The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven ,
the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth .
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Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem ;
and there was none to bury them .
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We are become a reproach to our neighbours ,
a scorn and derision to them that are round about us .
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How long ,
LORD ?
wilt thou be angry for ever ?
shall thy jealousy burn like fire ?
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee ,
and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name .
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For they have devoured Jacob ,
and laid waste his dwelling place .
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O remember not against us former iniquities :
let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us :
for we are brought very low .
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Help us ,
O God of our salvation ,
for the glory of thy name :
and deliver us ,
and purge away our sins ,
for thy name '
s sake .
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Wherefore should the heathen say ,
Where is their God ?
let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed .
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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ;
according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ;
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And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach ,
wherewith they have reproached thee ,
O Lord .
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So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever :
we will shew forth thy praise to all generations .
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Give ear ,
O Shepherd of Israel ,
thou that leadest Joseph like a flock ;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims ,
shine forth .
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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength ,
and come and save us .
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Turn us again ,
O God ,
and cause thy face to shine ;
and we shall be saved .
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O LORD God of hosts ,
how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people ?
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Thou feedest them with the bread of tears ;
and givest them tears to drink in great measure .
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours :
and our enemies laugh among themselves .
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Turn us again ,
O God of hosts ,
and cause thy face to shine ;
and we shall be saved .
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt :
thou hast cast out the heathen ,
and planted it .
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Thou preparedst room before it ,
and didst cause it to take deep root ,
and it filled the land .
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The hills were covered with the shadow of it ,
and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars .
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea ,
and her branches unto the river .
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges ,
so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ?
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The boar out of the wood doth waste it ,
and the wild beast of the field doth devour it .
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Return ,
we beseech thee ,
O God of hosts :
look down from heaven ,
and behold ,
and visit this vine ;
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And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted ,
and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself .
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It is burned with fire ,
it is cut down :
they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance .
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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand ,
upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself .
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So will not we go back from thee :
quicken us ,
and we will call upon thy name .
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Turn us again ,
O LORD God of hosts ,
cause thy face to shine ;
and we shall be saved .
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Sing aloud unto God our strength :
make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob .
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Take a psalm ,
and bring hither the timbrel ,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery .
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Blow up the trumpet in the new moon ,
in the time appointed ,
on our solemn feast day .
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For this was a statute for Israel ,
and a law of the God of Jacob .
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This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony ,
when he went out through the land of Egypt :
where I heard a language that I understood not .
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I removed his shoulder from the burden :
his hands were delivered from the pots .
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Thou calledst in trouble ,
and I delivered thee ;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder :
I proved thee at the waters of Meribah .
Selah .
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Hear ,
O my people ,
and I will testify unto thee :
O Israel ,
if thou wilt hearken unto me ;
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There shall no strange god be in thee ;
neither shalt thou worship any strange god .
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I am the LORD thy God ,
which brought thee out of the land of Egypt :
open thy mouth wide ,
and I will fill it .
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But my people would not hearken to my voice ;
and Israel would none of me .
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So I gave them up unto their own hearts '
lust :
and they walked in their own counsels .
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me ,
and Israel had walked in my ways !
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I should soon have subdued their enemies ,
and turned my hand against their adversaries .
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The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him :
but their time should have endured for ever .
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat :
and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee .
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God standeth in the congregation of the mighty ;
he judgeth among the gods .
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How long will ye judge unjustly ,
and accept the persons of the wicked ?
Selah .
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Defend the poor and fatherless :
do justice to the afflicted and needy .
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Deliver the poor and needy :
rid them out of the hand of the wicked .
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They know not ,
neither will they understand ;
they walk on in darkness :
all the foundations of the earth are out of course .
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I have said ,
Ye are gods ;
and all of you are children of the most High .
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But ye shall die like men ,
and fall like one of the princes .
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Arise ,
O God ,
judge the earth :
for thou shalt inherit all nations .
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Keep not thou silence ,
O God :
hold not thy peace ,
and be not still ,
O God .
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For ,
lo ,
thine enemies make a tumult :
and they that hate thee have lifted up the head .
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people ,
and consulted against thy hidden ones .
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They have said ,
Come ,
and let us cut them off from being a nation ;
that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance .
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For they have consulted together with one consent :
they are confederate against thee :
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The tabernacles of Edom ,
and the Ishmaelites ;
of Moab ,
and the Hagarenes ;
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Gebal ,
and Ammon ,
and Amalek ;
the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre ;
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Assur also is joined with them :
they have holpen the children of Lot .
Selah .
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Do unto them as unto the Midianites ;
as to Sisera ,
as to Jabin ,
at the brook of Kison :
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Which perished at Endor :
they became as dung for the earth .
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Make their nobles like Oreb ,
and like Zeeb :
yea ,
all their princes as Zebah ,
and as Zalmunna :
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Who said ,
Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession .
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O my God ,
make them like a wheel ;
as the stubble before the wind .
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As the fire burneth a wood ,
and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire ;
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So persecute them with thy tempest ,
and make them afraid with thy storm .
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Fill their faces with shame ;
that they may seek thy name ,
O LORD .
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Let them be confounded and troubled for ever ;
yea ,
let them be put to shame ,
and perish :
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That men may know that thou ,
whose name alone is JEHOVAH ,
art the most high over all the earth .
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How amiable are thy tabernacles ,
O LORD of hosts !
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My soul longeth ,
yea ,
even fainteth for the courts of the LORD :
my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God .
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Yea ,
the sparrow hath found an house ,
and the swallow a nest for herself ,
where she may lay her young ,
even thine altars ,
O LORD of hosts ,
my King ,
and my God .
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Blessed are they that dwell in thy house :
they will be still praising thee .
Selah .
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Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ;
in whose heart are the ways of them .
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Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ;
the rain also filleth the pools .
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They go from strength to strength ,
every one of them in Zion appeareth before God .
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O LORD God of hosts ,
hear my prayer :
give ear ,
O God of Jacob .
Selah .
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Behold ,
O God our shield ,
and look upon the face of thine anointed .
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand .
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God ,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness .
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield :
the LORD will give grace and glory :
no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly .
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O LORD of hosts ,
blessed is the man that trusteth in thee .
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LORD ,
thou hast been favourable unto thy land :
thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob .
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Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people ,
thou hast covered all their sin .
Selah .
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Thou hast taken away all thy wrath :
thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger .
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Turn us ,
O God of our salvation ,
and cause thine anger toward us to cease .
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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever ?
wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations ?
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Wilt thou not revive us again :
that thy people may rejoice in thee ?
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Shew us thy mercy ,
O LORD ,
and grant us thy salvation .
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I will hear what God the LORD will speak :
for he will speak peace unto his people ,
and to his saints :
but let them not turn again to folly .
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Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ;
that glory may dwell in our land .
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Mercy and truth are met together ;
righteousness and peace have kissed each other .
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Truth shall spring out of the earth ;
and righteousness shall look down from heaven .
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Yea ,
the LORD shall give that which is good ;
and our land shall yield her increase .
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Righteousness shall go before him ;
and shall set us in the way of his steps .
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Bow down thine ear ,
O LORD ,
hear me :
for I am poor and needy .
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Preserve my soul ;
for I am holy :
O thou my God ,
save thy servant that trusteth in thee .
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Be merciful unto me ,
O Lord :
for I cry unto thee daily .
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Rejoice the soul of thy servant :
for unto thee ,
O Lord ,
do I lift up my soul .
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For thou ,
Lord ,
art good ,
and ready to forgive ;
and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee .
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Give ear ,
O LORD ,
unto my prayer ;
and attend to the voice of my supplications .
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In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee :
for thou wilt answer me .
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Among the gods there is none like unto thee ,
O Lord ;
neither are there any works like unto thy works .
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All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee ,
O Lord ;
and shall glorify thy name .
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For thou art great ,
and doest wondrous things :
thou art God alone .
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Teach me thy way ,
O LORD ;
I will walk in thy truth :
unite my heart to fear thy name .
*
I will praise thee ,
O Lord my God ,
with all my heart :
and I will glorify thy name for evermore .
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For great is thy mercy toward me :
and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell .
*
O God ,
the proud are risen against me ,
and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul ;
and have not set thee before them .
*
But thou ,
O Lord ,
art a God full of compassion ,
and gracious ,
longsuffering ,
and plenteous in mercy and truth .
*
O turn unto me ,
and have mercy upon me ;
give thy strength unto thy servant ,
and save the son of thine handmaid .
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Shew me a token for good ;
that they which hate me may see it ,
and be ashamed :
because thou ,
LORD ,
hast holpen me ,
and comforted me .
*
His foundation is in the holy mountains .
*
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob .
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Glorious things are spoken of thee ,
O city of God .
Selah .
*
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me :
behold Philistia ,
and Tyre ,
with Ethiopia ;
this man was born there .
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And of Zion it shall be said ,
This and that man was born in her :
and the highest himself shall establish her .
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The LORD shall count ,
when he writeth up the people ,
that this man was born there .
Selah .
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As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there :
all my springs are in thee .
*
O LORD God of my salvation ,
I have cried day and night before thee :
*
Let my prayer come before thee :
incline thine ear unto my cry ;
*
For my soul is full of troubles :
and my life draweth nigh unto the grave .
*
I am counted with them that go down into the pit :
I am as a man that hath no strength :
*
Free among the dead ,
like the slain that lie in the grave ,
whom thou rememberest no more :
and they are cut off from thy hand .
*
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit ,
in darkness ,
in the deeps .
*
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me ,
and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves .
Selah .
*
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me ;
thou hast made me an abomination unto them :
I am shut up ,
and I cannot come forth .
*
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction :
LORD ,
I have called daily upon thee ,
I have stretched out my hands unto thee .
*
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead ?
shall the dead arise and praise thee ?
Selah .
*
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave ?
or thy faithfulness in destruction ?
*
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark ?
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ?
*
But unto thee have I cried ,
O LORD ;
and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee .
*
LORD ,
why castest thou off my soul ?
why hidest thou thy face from me ?
*
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up :
while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted .
*
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ;
thy terrors have cut me off .
*
They came round about me daily like water ;
they compassed me about together .
*
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me ,
and mine acquaintance into darkness .
*
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever :
with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations .
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For I have said ,
Mercy shall be built up for ever :
thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens .
*
I have made a covenant with my chosen ,
I have sworn unto David my servant ,
*
Thy seed will I establish for ever ,
and build up thy throne to all generations .
Selah .
*
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders ,
O LORD :
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints .
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For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD ?
who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD ?
*
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints ,
and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him .
*
O LORD God of hosts ,
who is a strong LORD like unto thee ?
or to thy faithfulness round about thee ?
*
Thou rulest the raging of the sea :
when the waves thereof arise ,
thou stillest them .
*
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces ,
as one that is slain ;
thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm .
*
The heavens are thine ,
the earth also is thine :
as for the world and the fulness thereof ,
thou hast founded them .
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The north and the south thou hast created them :
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name .
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Thou hast a mighty arm :
strong is thy hand ,
and high is thy right hand .
*
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne :
mercy and truth shall go before thy face .
*
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound :
they shall walk ,
O LORD ,
in the light of thy countenance .
*
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day :
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted .
*
For thou art the glory of their strength :
and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted .
*
For the LORD is our defence ;
and the Holy One of Israel is our king .
*
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one ,
and saidst ,
I have laid help upon one that is mighty ;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people .
*
I have found David my servant ;
with my holy oil have I anointed him :
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With whom my hand shall be established :
mine arm also shall strengthen him .
*
The enemy shall not exact upon him ;
nor the son of wickedness afflict him .
*
And I will beat down his foes before his face ,
and plague them that hate him .
*
But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him :
and in my name shall his horn be exalted .
*
I will set his hand also in the sea ,
and his right hand in the rivers .
*
He shall cry unto me ,
Thou art my father ,
my God ,
and the rock of my salvation .
*
Also I will make him my firstborn ,
higher than the kings of the earth .
*
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore ,
and my covenant shall stand fast with him .
*
His seed also will I make to endure for ever ,
and his throne as the days of heaven .
*
If his children forsake my law ,
and walk not in my judgments ;
*
If they break my statutes ,
and keep not my commandments ;
*
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod ,
and their iniquity with stripes .
*
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him ,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail .
*
My covenant will I not break ,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips .
*
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David .
*
His seed shall endure for ever ,
and his throne as the sun before me .
*
It shall be established for ever as the moon ,
and as a faithful witness in heaven .
Selah .
*
But thou hast cast off and abhorred ,
thou hast been wroth with thine anointed .
*
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant :
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground .
*
Thou hast broken down all his hedges ;
thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin .
*
All that pass by the way spoil him :
he is a reproach to his neighbours .
*
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries ;
thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice .
*
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword ,
and hast not made him to stand in the battle .
*
Thou hast made his glory to cease ,
and cast his throne down to the ground .
*
The days of his youth hast thou shortened :
thou hast covered him with shame .
Selah .
*
How long ,
LORD ?
wilt thou hide thyself for ever ?
shall thy wrath burn like fire ?
*
Remember how short my time is :
wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ?
*
What man is he that liveth ,
and shall not see death ?
shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ?
Selah .
*
Lord ,
where are thy former lovingkindnesses ,
which thou swarest unto David in thy truth ?
*
Remember ,
Lord ,
the reproach of thy servants ;
how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people ;
*
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached ,
O LORD ;
wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed .
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Blessed be the LORD for evermore .
Amen ,
and Amen .
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Lord ,
thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations .
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