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I waited patiently for the LORD ;
and he inclined unto me ,
and heard my cry .
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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit ,
out of the miry clay ,
and set my feet upon a rock ,
and established my goings .
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And he hath put a new song in my mouth ,
even praise unto our God :
many shall see it ,
and fear ,
and shall trust in the LORD .
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Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust ,
and respecteth not the proud ,
nor such as turn aside to lies .
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Many ,
O LORD my God ,
are thy wonderful works which thou hast done ,
and thy thoughts which are to us-ward :
they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee :
if I would declare and speak of them ,
they are more than can be numbered .
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Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire ;
mine ears hast thou opened :
burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required .
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Then said I ,
Lo ,
I come :
in the volume of the book it is written of me ,
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I delight to do thy will ,
O my God :
yea ,
thy law is within my heart .
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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation :
lo ,
I have not refrained my lips ,
O LORD ,
thou knowest .
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I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart ;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation :
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation .
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Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me ,
O LORD :
let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me .
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For innumerable evils have compassed me about :
mine iniquities have taken hold upon me ,
so that I am not able to look up ;
they are more than the hairs of mine head :
therefore my heart faileth me .
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Be pleased ,
O LORD ,
to deliver me :
O LORD ,
make haste to help me .
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Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it ;
let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil .
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Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me ,
Aha ,
aha .
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Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee :
let such as love thy salvation say continually ,
The LORD be magnified .
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But I am poor and needy ;
yet the Lord thinketh upon me :
thou art my help and my deliverer ;
make no tarrying ,
O my God .
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Blessed is he that considereth the poor :
the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble .
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The LORD will preserve him ,
and keep him alive ;
and he shall be blessed upon the earth :
and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies .
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The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing :
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness .
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I said ,
LORD ,
be merciful unto me :
heal my soul ;
for I have sinned against thee .
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Mine enemies speak evil of me ,
When shall he die ,
and his name perish ?
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And if he come to see me ,
he speaketh vanity :
his heart gathereth iniquity to itself ;
when he goeth abroad ,
he telleth it .
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All that hate me whisper together against me :
against me do they devise my hurt .
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An evil disease ,
say they ,
cleaveth fast unto him :
and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more .
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Yea ,
mine own familiar friend ,
in whom I trusted ,
which did eat of my bread ,
hath lifted up his heel against me .
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But thou ,
O LORD ,
be merciful unto me ,
and raise me up ,
that I may requite them .
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By this I know that thou favourest me ,
because mine enemy doth not triumph over me .
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And as for me ,
thou upholdest me in mine integrity ,
and settest me before thy face for ever .
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Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting ,
and to everlasting .
Amen ,
and Amen .
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As the hart panteth after the water brooks ,
so panteth my soul after thee ,
O God .
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My soul thirsteth for God ,
for the living God :
when shall I come and appear before God ?
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My tears have been my meat day and night ,
while they continually say unto me ,
Where is thy God ?
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When I remember these things ,
I pour out my soul in me :
for I had gone with the multitude ,
I went with them to the house of God ,
with the voice of joy and praise ,
with a multitude that kept holyday .
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Why art thou cast down ,
O my soul ?
and why art thou disquieted in me ?
hope thou in God :
for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance .
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O my God ,
my soul is cast down within me :
therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan ,
and of the Hermonites ,
from the hill Mizar .
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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts :
all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me .
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Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime ,
and in the night his song shall be with me ,
and my prayer unto the God of my life .
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I will say unto God my rock ,
Why hast thou forgotten me ?
why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?
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As with a sword in my bones ,
mine enemies reproach me ;
while they say daily unto me ,
Where is thy God ?
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Why art thou cast down ,
O my soul ?
and why art thou disquieted within me ?
hope thou in God :
for I shall yet praise him ,
who is the health of my countenance ,
and my God .
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Judge me ,
O God ,
and plead my cause against an ungodly nation :
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man .
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For thou art the God of my strength :
why dost thou cast me off ?
why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?
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O send out thy light and thy truth :
let them lead me ;
let them bring me unto thy holy hill ,
and to thy tabernacles .
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Then will I go unto the altar of God ,
unto God my exceeding joy :
yea ,
upon the harp will I praise thee ,
O God my God .
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Why art thou cast down ,
O my soul ?
and why art thou disquieted within me ?
hope in God :
for I shall yet praise him ,
who is the health of my countenance ,
and my God .
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We have heard with our ears ,
O God ,
our fathers have told us ,
what work thou didst in their days ,
in the times of old .
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand ,
and plantedst them ;
how thou didst afflict the people ,
and cast them out .
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword ,
neither did their own arm save them :
but thy right hand ,
and thine arm ,
and the light of thy countenance ,
because thou hadst a favour unto them .
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Thou art my King ,
O God :
command deliverances for Jacob .
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Through thee will we push down our enemies :
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us .
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For I will not trust in my bow ,
neither shall my sword save me .
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies ,
and hast put them to shame that hated us .
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In God we boast all the day long ,
and praise thy name for ever .
Selah .
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But thou hast cast off ,
and put us to shame ;
and goest not forth with our armies .
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy :
and they which hate us spoil for themselves .
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat ;
and hast scattered us among the heathen .
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Thou sellest thy people for nought ,
and dost not increase thy wealth by their price .
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours ,
a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us .
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen ,
a shaking of the head among the people .
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My confusion is continually before me ,
and the shame of my face hath covered me ,
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth ;
by reason of the enemy and avenger .
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All this is come upon us ;
yet have we not forgotten thee ,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant .
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Our heart is not turned back ,
neither have our steps declined from thy way ;
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons ,
and covered us with the shadow of death .
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If we have forgotten the name of our God ,
or stretched out our hands to a strange god ;
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Shall not God search this out ?
for he knoweth the secrets of the heart .
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Yea ,
for thy sake are we killed all the day long ;
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter .
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Awake ,
why sleepest thou ,
O Lord ?
arise ,
cast us not off for ever .
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face ,
and forgettest our affliction and our oppression ?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust :
our belly cleaveth unto the earth .
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Arise for our help ,
and redeem us for thy mercies '
sake .
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My heart is inditing a good matter :
I speak of the things which I have made touching the king :
my tongue is the pen of a ready writer .
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Thou art fairer than the children of men :
grace is poured into thy lips :
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever .
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Gird thy sword upon thy thigh ,
O most mighty ,
with thy glory and thy majesty .
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And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ;
and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things .
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Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king '
s enemies ;
whereby the people fall under thee .
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Thy throne ,
O God ,
is for ever and ever :
the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre .
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Thou lovest righteousness ,
and hatest wickedness :
therefore God ,
thy God ,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows .
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All thy garments smell of myrrh ,
and aloes ,
and cassia ,
out of the ivory palaces ,
whereby they have made thee glad .
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Kings '
daughters were among thy honourable women :
upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir .
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Hearken ,
O daughter ,
and consider ,
and incline thine ear ;
forget also thine own people ,
and thy father '
s house ;
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So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty :
for he is thy Lord ;
and worship thou him .
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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift ;
even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour .
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The king '
s daughter is all glorious within :
her clothing is of wrought gold .
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She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework :
the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee .
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With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought :
they shall enter into the king '
s palace .
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Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children ,
whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth .
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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations :
therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever .
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God is our refuge and strength ,
a very present help in trouble .
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Therefore will not we fear ,
though the earth be removed ,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ;
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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled ,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof .
Selah .
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There is a river ,
the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God ,
the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High .
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God is in the midst of her ;
she shall not be moved :
God shall help her ,
and that right early .
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The heathen raged ,
the kingdoms were moved :
he uttered his voice ,
the earth melted .
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The LORD of hosts is with us ;
the God of Jacob is our refuge .
Selah .
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Come ,
behold the works of the LORD ,
what desolations he hath made in the earth .
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He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth ;
he breaketh the bow ,
and cutteth the spear in sunder ;
he burneth the chariot in the fire .
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Be still ,
and know that I am God :
I will be exalted among the heathen ,
I will be exalted in the earth .
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The LORD of hosts is with us ;
the God of Jacob is our refuge .
Selah .
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O clap your hands ,
all ye people ;
shout unto God with the voice of triumph .
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For the LORD most high is terrible ;
he is a great King over all the earth .
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He shall subdue the people under us ,
and the nations under our feet .
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He shall choose our inheritance for us ,
the excellency of Jacob whom he loved .
Selah .
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God is gone up with a shout ,
the LORD with the sound of a trumpet .
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Sing praises to God ,
sing praises :
sing praises unto our King ,
sing praises .
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For God is the King of all the earth :
sing ye praises with understanding .
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God reigneth over the heathen :
God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness .
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The princes of the people are gathered together ,
even the people of the God of Abraham :
for the shields of the earth belong unto God :
he is greatly exalted .
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Great is the LORD ,
and greatly to be praised in the city of our God ,
in the mountain of his holiness .
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Beautiful for situation ,
the joy of the whole earth ,
is mount Zion ,
on the sides of the north ,
the city of the great King .
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God is known in her palaces for a refuge .
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For ,
lo ,
the kings were assembled ,
they passed by together .
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They saw it ,
and so they marvelled ;
they were troubled ,
and hasted away .
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Fear took hold upon them there ,
and pain ,
as of a woman in travail .
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind .
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As we have heard ,
so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts ,
in the city of our God :
God will establish it for ever .
Selah .
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We have thought of thy lovingkindness ,
O God ,
in the midst of thy temple .
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According to thy name ,
O God ,
so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth :
thy right hand is full of righteousness .
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Let mount Zion rejoice ,
let the daughters of Judah be glad ,
because of thy judgments .
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Walk about Zion ,
and go round about her :
tell the towers thereof .
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Mark ye well her bulwarks ,
consider her palaces ;
that ye may tell it to the generation following .
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For this God is our God for ever and ever :
he will be our guide even unto death .
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Hear this ,
all ye people ;
give ear ,
all ye inhabitants of the world :
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Both low and high ,
rich and poor ,
together .
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My mouth shall speak of wisdom ;
and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding .
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I will incline mine ear to a parable :
I will open my dark saying upon the harp .
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Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil ,
when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about ?
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They that trust in their wealth ,
and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ;
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None of them can by any means redeem his brother ,
nor give to God a ransom for him :
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For the redemption of their soul is precious ,
and it ceaseth for ever :)
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That he should still live for ever ,
and not see corruption .
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For he seeth that wise men die ,
likewise the fool and the brutish person perish ,
and leave their wealth to others .
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Their inward thought is ,
that their houses shall continue for ever ,
and their dwelling places to all generations ;
they call their lands after their own names .
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Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not :
he is like the beasts that perish .
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This their way is their folly :
yet their posterity approve their sayings .
Selah .
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Like sheep they are laid in the grave ;
death shall feed on them ;
and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning ;
and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling .
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But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave :
for he shall receive me .
Selah .
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Be not thou afraid when one is made rich ,
when the glory of his house is increased ;
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For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away :
his glory shall not descend after him .
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Though while he lived he blessed his soul :
and men will praise thee ,
when thou doest well to thyself .
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He shall go to the generation of his fathers ;
they shall never see light .
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Man that is in honour ,
and understandeth not ,
is like the beasts that perish .