Psalms:73-89
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A Psalm of Asaph .
Truly God [
is ]
good to Israel ,
to the pure of heart .
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And I ,
my foot had almost stumbled ;
my steps had nearly slipped .
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For I was jealous of the proud , [
when ]
I saw the peace of the wicked .
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For [
there are ]
no bands in their death ;
but their strength [
is ]
fat .
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They [
are ]
not in trouble [
like other ]
men ;
neither are they plagued like other men .
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Therefore pride enchains them ;
violence covers them [
like ]
a robe .
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Their eyes stand out with fatness ;
they have more than the heart could imagine .
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They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty ;
from on high they speak .
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They set their mouth against the heavens ,
and their tongue walks through the earth .
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Therefore His people return here ,
and waters of a full [
cup are ]
wrung out to them .
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And they say ,
How does God know ?
And is there knowledge in the Most High ?
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Behold ,
these [
are ]
the ungodly ,
who are at ease in the world ;
they increase [
in ]
riches .
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Surely I have made my heart pure [
in ]
vain ,
and washed my hands in innocence .
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For all the day long I have been plagued ,
and chastened every morning .
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If I say ,
I will speak thus ;
behold ,
I would deceive a generation of Your sons .
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When I thought deeply in order to understand this ,
it [
was ]
painful for me ,
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until I went into the sanctuary of God ; [
then ]
I understood their end .
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Surely You set them in slippery places ;
You cast them down into ruin .
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How have they been [
brought ]
into grief ,
as in a moment !
They are fully eaten up with terrors ,
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like a dream when [
one ]
awakens ;
so ,
O LORD ,
when You awake ,
You shall despise their image .
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For my heart was grieved and I was pricked [
in ]
my reins .
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So foolish [
was ]
I ,
and I did not know ;
I was [
like ]
a beast before You .
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But I [
am ]
always with You ;
You have held [
me ]
by my right hand .
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You shall lead me with Your counsel ,
and afterward receive me [
to ]
glory .
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Whom have I in Heaven ?
And besides You I desire none on earth .
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My flesh and my heart fail ; [
but ]
God [
is ]
the strength of my heart ,
and my part forever .
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For lo ,
those who are far from You shall perish ;
You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You .
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And I , [
it is ]
good for me to draw near to God ;
I have put my trust in the LORD God ,
to declare all Your works .
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An Instruction of Asaph .
O God ,
have You cast [
us ]
off forever ?
Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture ?
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Remember Your congregation , [
which ]
You have purchased of old ,
the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed ;
this mount Zion in [
which ]
You have dwelt .
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Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins ,
even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary .
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Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregation ;
they set up their own banners [
for ]
signs .
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He is known as one bringing axes on high ,
on the thick trees .
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And now all its carvings too ,
they break down with axes and hammers .
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They have cast fire into Your sanctuary ;
they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground .
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They said in their hearts ,
Together let us rage against them ;
they have burned up all God '
s meeting-places in the land .
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We did not see our signs ; [
there is ]
no prophet any more ;
neither [
is there ]
among us any who knows how long .
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O God ,
how long shall the enemy speak evil ?
Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever ?
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Why do You withdraw Your hand ,
even Your right hand ?
Draw [
it ]
out of Your bosom .
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For God [
is ]
my king of old ,
working salvation in the midst of the earth ,
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You divide the sea by Your strength ;
You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters .
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You cracked open the heads of leviathan ,
and gave him to [
be food ]
to the people living in the wilderness .
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You divide the fountain and the flood ;
You dry up mighty rivers .
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The day [
is ]
Yours ,
the night also [
is ]
Yours ;
You have prepared the light and the sun .
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You have set all the borders of the earth ;
You have made summer and winter .
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Remember this ,
the enemy has cursed ,
O LORD ,
and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name .
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Do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the multitude ;
forget not the congregation of Your poor forever .
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Look to the covenant ;
for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil .
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Oh let not the ill-treated ones return ashamed ;
let the poor and needy praise Your name .
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Arise ,
O God ,
plead Your own cause ;
remember how the foolish man curses You daily .
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Forget not the voice of Your enemies ;
the noise of those who rise up against You keeps on increasing .
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To the Chief Musician .
Do not destroy .
A Psalm of Asaph .
A Songs .
To You ,
O God ,
we have given thanks ,
to You we have given thanks ;
for Your name is near ,
Your wonderful works declared .
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When I take the appointed time ,
I will judge uprightly .
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The earth and all its people are melting away ;
I hold up its pillars .
Selah .
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I said to the proud ,
Do not boast ;
and to the wicked ,
Do not lift up the horn ;
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do not lift up your horn on high ; [
nor ]
speak [
with ]
a stiff neck .
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For lifting up [
comes ]
neither from the east ,
nor from the west ,
nor from the south .
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But God [
is ]
the judge ; [
He ]
puts down one and sets up another .
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For in the hand of the LORD [
there is ]
a cup ,
and the wine is red ;
it is fully mixed ;
and He pours out from it ;
but the dregs of it ,
all the wicked of the earth shall drain its dregs [
and ]
drink .
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But I will declare forever ;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob .
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Also I will cut off all the horns of the wicked ; [
but ]
the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up .
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To the Chief Musician .
For stringed instruments .
A Psalm of Asaph .
A Songs .
God [
is ]
known in Judah ,
His name is great in Israel .
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And His abode is in Salem ;
and His dwelling-place in Zion .
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There He broke the fiery arrows of the bow ,
the shield ,
and the sword ,
and the battle .
Selah .
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You [
are ]
more glorious [
and ]
excellent than the mountains of prey .
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The stouthearted have been stripped ;
they slept their sleep ;
and none of the men of might have found their hands .
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By Your rebuke ,
O God of Jacob ,
both the horse and the chariot have sunk into a sleep .
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You , [
even ]
You , [
are ]
terrifying ,
and who can stand when once You are angry ?
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You 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 You ;
the wrath that is left ,
You shall bind up .
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Vow ,
and pay to the LORD your God ;
let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One .
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He shall cut off the spirit in princes ; [
He is ]
feared by the kings of the earth .
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To the Chief Musician .
To Jeduthun .
A Psalm of Asaph .
I cried to God with my voice ,
to God [
is ]
my voice ;
and He gave ear to me .
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In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD ;
my hand was poured 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 fainted .
Selah .
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You keep my eyes awake ;
I am troubled and I cannot speak .
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I have thought on the days of old ,
the years of ages [
past ].
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I remember my song in the night ;
I speak with my own heart ,
and my spirit carefully searches .
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Will the Lord cast off forever ?
And will He be favorable no more ?
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Is His mercy gone forever ?
Has [
His ]
word failed for all generations ?
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Has God forgotten to be gracious ?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies ?
Selah .
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And I said ,
This [
is ]
my weakness ,
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 Your wonders of old .
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I will also think on all Your work ,
and talk of Your doings .
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Your way ,
O God , [
is ]
in holiness ;
who [
is ]
so great a God as our God ?
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You [
are ]
the God who does wonders ;
You have declared Your strength among the people .
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You have with [
Your ]
arm redeemed Your people ,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph .
Selah .
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The waters saw You ,
O God ,
the waters saw You ;
they were afraid ;
the depths also were troubled .
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The clouds poured out water ;
the skies sent out a sound ;
Your arrows also flew here and there .
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The voice of Your thunder [
was ]
in the sky ;
the lightnings lit up the world ;
the earth trembled and shook .
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Your way [
is ]
in the sea ,
and Your path in the great waters ,
and Your footsteps are not known .
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You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron .
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An instruction of Asaph .
Give ear ,
O my people , [
to ]
my law ;
bow down your ears to the words of my mouth .
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I will open my mouth in a parable ;
I will speak 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 sons ,
showing to the generations to come the praises of the LORD ,
and His strength ,
and His wonderful works that He has done .
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For He set up a testimony in Jacob ,
and ordered a law in Israel ,
which He commanded our fathers ,
that they should teach them to their sons ;
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so that the generation to come might know ;
sons shall be born ,
and they shall arise [
and ]
tell their sons ,
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so 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 like their fathers ,
a stubborn and rebellious generation ,
a generation [
that ]
did not set their heart aright ,
and whose spirit was not faithful with God .
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The sons of Ephraim ,
armed shooters of bows ,
turned back in the day of battle .
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They did not keep the covenant of God ,
and refused to walk in His law .
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And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them .
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He did marvelous things 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 in a heap .
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And in the daytime He led them with a cloud ,
and all the night with a light of fire .
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He split the rocks in the wilderness ,
and let [
them ]
drink ,
as [
from ]
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 still more against Him ,
by provoking the Most High in the wilderness .
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust .
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And they spoke against God ;
they said ,
Can God set a table in the wilderness ?
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Behold !
He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out ,
and the streams overflowed .
Can He also give bread ?
Can He provide flesh for His people ?
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Therefore the LORD heard ,
and was made furious ;
so a fire was kindled against Jacob ,
and anger also came up against Israel ,
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because they did not believe in God ,
and did not trust in His salvation ;
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though He had commanded the clouds from above ,
and had opened the doors of the heavens ;
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and had rained down manna on them to eat ,
and He gave them of the grain of the heavens .
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Man ate the food of the mighty ;
He sent them meat to the full .
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He caused an east [
wind ]
to blow in the sky ;
and by His power He brought in the south [
wind ].
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and He also rained flesh on them like dust ,
and winged birds like the sand of the sea ;
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and He let [
them ]
fall in the middle of their camp ,
all around their tents .
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So they ate ,
and were filled to the full ;
for He gave them their own desire .
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They were not turned away from their lust ,
but while their food [
was ]
still in their mouths ,
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the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them ,
and struck down the chosen of Israel .
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For all this they still sinned ,
and did not believe because of His wonderful works .
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Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble .
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When He killed them ,
then they looked for Him ;
and they turned back and sought after God .
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And they remembered that God [
was ]
their rock ,
and the Most High God was their redeemer .
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But they flattered Him with their mouths ,
and they lied to Him with their tongues .
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For their heart was not right with Him ,
neither were they faithful in His covenant .
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But He ,
full of pity ,
forgave their iniquity ,
and did not destroy [
them ];
yea ,
many times He turned 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 passes away and does not come again .
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How often they provoked Him in the wilderness ,
and grieved Him in the desert !
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Yea ,
they turned back and tempted God ,
and pained to the Holy One of Israel .
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They did not remember His hand ,
the day when He delivered them from the enemy ;
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how He had set His signs in Egypt ,
and His wonders in the fields of Zoan .
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He turned their rivers into blood ,
and their floods , [
so that ]
they could not drink .
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He sent different kinds of flies among them ,
which devoured them ;
and frogs ,
which destroyed them .
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He also gave their crops to the stripping locust ,
and their labor to the locust .
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He destroyed their vines with hail ,
and their sycamore trees with sleet .
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He gave up their cattle to the hail ,
and their flocks to bolts of fire .
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He sent on them the heat of His anger ,
wrath and fury and trouble ,
by sending evil angels .
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He made a way to His anger ;
He did not save their soul from death ,
but gave their life over to the plague ,
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and struck all the first-born in Egypt ,
the first of the strong in the tents of Ham ;
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and led His people 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 did not fear ;
but the sea flooded over their enemies .
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And He brought them within His own holy border ,
this mountain , [
which ]
His right hand had bought .
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He also cast out the nations 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 they turned back ,
and acted unfaithfully like their fathers ;
they were turned aside like a deceiving bow .
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For they provoked Him to anger with their high places ,
and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images .
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When God heard ,
He was angry ,
and turned away from Israel ;
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so that He left 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 hands .
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He also gave His people over to the sword ,
and was angry with His inheritance .
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The fire burned up their young men ;
and their maidens were not given in marriage .
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Their priests fell by the sword ;
and their widows were not able to weep .
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Then the Lord awakened like one out of sleep ,
like a mighty man rejoicing with wine .
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And He drove His enemies backward ;
He put them to a never-ending shame .
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And 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 holy place like high [
palaces ],
like the earth which He has founded forever .
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He also chose David 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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And he fed them according to the pureness of his heart ,
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands .
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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 .
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They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [
as ]
food for the birds of the heavens ,
the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth .
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They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem ,
and none to bury .
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We have become a shame to our neighbors ,
a scorn and mockery to those who are around us .
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How long ,
O LORD ?
Will You be angry forever ?
Shall Your jealousy burn like fire ?
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Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You ,
and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name .
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For [
they have ]
eaten up Jacob ,
and wasted his dwelling-place .
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O do not remember against us our former sins ;
let Your tender mercies meet us quickly ;
for we are brought very low .
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Help us ,
O God of our salvation ,
for the glory of Your name ;
and deliver us ,
and atone for our sins ,
for Your name '
s sake .
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Why should the nations say ,
Where [
is ]
their God ?
Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes [
by ]
the revenging of the blood of Your servants [
which is ]
shed .
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Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You ;
according to the greatness of Your power ,
leave a remnant of those who are to die ,
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and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom ,
the curse with which they have cursed You ,
O Lord .
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Then we ,
Your people and sheep of Your pasture ,
will give You thanks forever ;
we will show forth Your praise to all generations .
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To the Chief Musician .
A Testimony Concerning the Lilies .
A Psalm of Asaph .
Give ear ,
O Shepherd of Israel ,
You who lead Joseph like a flock ;
You dwelling between the cherubs ,
shine forth .
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Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh ,
and come ,
save us .
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Turn us again ,
O God ,
and cause Your face to shine ,
and we shall be saved !
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O LORD God of hosts ,
how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people ?
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You feed them with the bread of tears ;
and give them tears to drink in great measure .
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You make us a strife for our neighbors ;
and our enemies laugh among themselves .
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Turn us again ,
O God of hosts ,
and cause Your face to shine ;
and we shall be saved .
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You have brought a vine out of Egypt ;
You have cast out the nations and planted it .
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You cleared before it ,
and caused it to take deep root ;
and it filled the land .
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The hills were covered [
with ]
its shadow ,
and its boughs [
were as ]
the great cedars .
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It sent out its boughs to the sea ,
and its branches to the river .
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Why have You broken down its hedges ,
so that all those who pass by the way pluck it ?
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The boar out of the wood wastes it ,
and the wild beast of the field eats it .
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Return ,
we beg You ,
O God of hosts ;
look down from Heaven ,
and behold ,
and visit this vine ,
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and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted ,
and the Son [
that ]
You make strong for Yourself .
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It is ]
burned with fire ,
and cut down ;
they perish at the rebuke of Your holy face .
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Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand ,
on the Son of man [
whom ]
You have made strong for Yourself .
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So we will not go back from You ;
make us live ,
and we will call on Your name .
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Turn us again ,
O LORD God of Hosts ;
cause Your face to shine ,
and we shall be saved .
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To the Chief Musician .
On Gittith ,
A Psalm of Asaph .
Sing aloud to God our strength ;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob .
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Lift up a psalm ,
and bring the timbrel here ,
the pleasing lyre and harp .
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Blow the ram '
s horn in the new moon ,
in the time appointed ,
on our solemn feast day .
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For this [
was ]
a statute for Israel ,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob .
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This He ordained in Joseph [
for ]
a testimony ,
when He went out over the land of Egypt ;
I heard a language 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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You called in trouble ,
and I delivered you ;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder ;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah .
Selah .
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Hear ,
O My people ,
and I will testify to you ;
O Israel ,
if you will listen to Me ,
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there shall be no strange god in you ;
nor shall you worship any strange god .
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I [
am ]
the LORD your God ,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt ;
open your mouth wide ,
and I will fill it .
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But My people would not listen to My voice ,
and Israel would have none of Me .
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So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts ; [
and ]
they walked in their own conceits .
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Oh that My people had listened to Me , [
and ]
Israel had walked in My ways !
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I would soon have humbled their enemies ,
and would have turned My hand against their foes .
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The haters of the LORD would have been found liars to Him ,
and their time would have lasted forever .
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And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat ;
and [
with ]
honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you .
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A Psalm of Asaph .
God stands in the congregation of God ;
in the midst of the gods He judges .
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How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces 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 ;
save [
them ]
out of the hand of the wicked .
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They neither know nor will understand ;
they walk on in darkness ;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken .
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I have said ,
You [
are ]
gods ;
and all of you sons of the Most High .
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But you shall die like men ,
and fall like one of the princes .
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Arise ,
O God ,
judge the earth ;
for You shall inherit in all nations .
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A Songs .
A Psalm of Asaph .
Keep not silence ,
O God ;
do not be speechless ,
and be not still ,
O God .
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For lo ,
Your enemies roar ;
and those who hate You have lifted up their head .
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They take shrewd counsel against Your people ,
and plot against Your hidden ones .
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They have said ,
Come ,
and let us cut them off from [
being ]
a nation ,
so that the name Israel may be remembered no more .
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For with one heart they have plotted together ;
they have made a covenant against You --
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the tents of Edom ,
and the Ishmaelites ;
of Moab ,
and the Hagarites ;
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Gebal ,
and Ammon ,
and Amalek ;
the Philistines with the people of Tyre ;
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and Assyria has joined with them ;
they have helped the sons of Lot .
Selah .
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Do to them as [
to ]
Midian ,
as [
to ]
Sisera ,
as [
to ]
Jabin at the torrent Kishon ;
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who 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 like Zebah ,
and like Zalmunna ;
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who said ,
Let us take possession for ourselves of the houses of God .
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O my God ,
make them like a wheel ;
like the stubble before the wind .
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As the fire burns a forest ,
and as the flame sets the mountains on fire ,
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so pursue them with Your tempest ,
and make them afraid with Your storm .
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Fill their faces with shame ,
that they may seek Your name ,
O LORD .
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Let them be ashamed and troubled forever ;
yea ,
let them be put to shame ,
and lost ;
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so that [
men ]
may know that Your name is JEHOVAH ,
that You alone [
are ]
the Most High over all the earth .
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To the Chief Musician .
On Gittith .
A Psalm for the sons of Korah .
How lovely [
are ]
Your tabernacles ,
O LORD of hosts !
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My soul longs ,
yea ,
even faints for the courts of the LORD ;
my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God .
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Even the sparrow has found a house ,
and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young ,
Your altars ,
O LORD of hosts ,
my king and my God .
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Blessed [
are ]
they who dwell in Your house ;
they will still praise You .
Selah .
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Blessed [
is ]
the man [
whose ]
strength [
is ]
in You ; [
Your ]
ways [
are ]
in their hearts .
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Passing through the valley of weeping ,
they will make it a fountain ;
the early rain also covers [
it with ]
blessings .
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They go from strength to strength ,
appearing in Zion 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 on the face of Your anointed .
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For a day in Your courts [
is ]
better than a thousand .
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God ,
than 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 those who walk uprightly .
*
O LORD of hosts ,
blessed [
is ]
the man who trusts in You .
*
To the Chief Musician .
A Psalm for the sons of Korah .
O LORD ,
You have been gracious to Your land ;
You have brought back the captivity of Jacob .
*
You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people ;
You have covered all their sins .
Selah .
*
You have taken away all Your wrath ;
You have turned from the heat of Your anger .
*
Turn us ,
O God of our salvation ,
and cause Your anger toward us to cease .
*
Will You be angry with us forever ?
Will You draw out Your anger to all generations ?
*
Will You not give us life again ,
so that Your people may rejoice in You ?
*
Show us Your mercy ,
O LORD ,
and grant us Your salvation .
*
I will hear what God the LORD will speak ;
for He will speak peace to His people ,
and to His saints ;
but let them not turn again to folly .
*
Surely His salvation [
is ]
near those that fear Him ,
so that glory may dwell in our land .
*
Mercy and truth have met together ;
righteousness and peace have kissed [
each other ].
*
Truth shall spring out of the earth ;
and righteousness shall look down from Heaven .
*
Yea ,
the LORD shall give good ;
and our land shall yield its increase .
*
Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set [
us ]
in the way of His steps .
*
A Prayer of David .
Bow down Your ear ,
O LORD ,
hear me ;
for I [
am ]
poor and needy .
*
Preserve my soul ;
for I [
am ]
holy ;
O You my God ,
save Your servant who trusts in You .
*
Be merciful 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 ,
Lord , [
are ]
good and ready to forgive ,
and rich in mercy to all those who call on You .
*
Give ear ,
O LORD ,
to my prayer ;
and attend to the voice of my prayers .
*
In the day of my trouble I will call on You ;
for You will answer me .
*
Among the gods [
there is ]
none like You ,
O Lord ;
none [
are ]
like Your works .
*
All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You ,
O Lord ,
and shall glorify Your name .
*
For You [
are ]
great and do wonderful things ;
You alone [
are ]
God .
*
Teach me Your way ,
O LORD ;
I will walk in Your truth ;
my heart rejoices to fear Your name .
*
I will praise You ,
O Lord my God ,
with all my heart ,
and I will glorify Your name forevermore .
*
For great [
is ]
Your mercy toward me ;
and You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell .
*
O God ,
the proud have risen against me ,
and the company of violent [
men ]
have sought after my life ,
and have not set You before them .
*
But You ,
O God , [
are ]
God full of pity ,
and gracious ,
long-suffering ,
and rich in mercy and truth .
*
Oh turn to me ,
and have mercy on me ;
give Your strength to Your servant ,
and save the son of Your handmaid .
*
Show me a token for good ,
so that they who hate me may see and be ashamed ;
because You ,
LORD ,
have helped me and comforted me .
*
A Psalm for the sons of Korah ,
A Songs .
His foundation [
is ]
in the holy mountains .
*
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings 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 to Zion it shall be said , [
This ]
man and [
that ]
man was born in her ;
and the Highest shall establish her .
*
The LORD shall count ,
in recording the peoples , [
that ]
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 LORD God of my salvation ,
I have cried day and night before You .
*
Let my prayer come before You ;
bow down Your ear to my cry .
*
For my soul is full of troubles ,
and my life draws near the grave .
*
I am counted with those who go down to the Pit ;
I am like a feeble man ;
*
free among the dead ,
like the slain that lie in the grave ,
whom You remember no more ;
and by Your hand they are cut off .
*
You have laid me in the lowest pit ,
in darkness ,
in the deeps .
*
Your wrath lies hard on me ,
and You have afflicted [
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 ,
and I cannot go out .
*
My eye mourns because of affliction ;
O LORD ,
I have called daily on You ;
I have stretched out my hands to You .
*
For will You do wonders to the dead ?
Shall the dead rise [
and ]
praise You ?
Selah .
*
Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave ? [
Or ]
Your faithfulness in ruin ?
*
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark ,
and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ?
*
But to You I have cried ,
O LORD ;
and in the morning my prayer shall go before You .
*
O LORD ,
why do You cast off my soul ? [
Why ]
do You hide Your face from me ?
*
I [
am ]
afflicted and ready to die from my youth up ;
while I suffer Your terrors ,
I pine away .
*
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 , [
and ]
those who know me into darkness .
*
A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite .
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever ;
with my mouth I will make known 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 ,
*
Your seed will I establish forever ,
and build up your throne to all generations .
Selah .
*
And the heavens shall praise Your wonders ,
O LORD ,
Your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints .
*
For who in the sky can be ranked [
with ]
the LORD ?
Who among the mighty is like the LORD ?
*
God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints ,
and to be adored by all around Him .
*
O LORD God of hosts ,
who [
is ]
a strong LORD like You ?
And Your faithfulness is round about You ?
*
You rule the raging of the sea ;
when its waves arise ,
You still them .
*
You have broken Rahab in pieces ,
as one that is slain ;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm .
*
The heavens [
are ]
Yours ,
the earth also [
is ]
Yours ;
You have founded the world and its fullness .
*
The north and the south ,
You have created them ;
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name .
*
You have a mighty arm ;
Your hand is strong , [
and ]
Your right hand is high .
*
Justice and judgment [
are ]
the foundation of Your throne ;
mercy and truth shall go before Your face .
*
Blessed [
is ]
the people that knows the joyful sound ;
they shall walk ,
O LORD ,
in the light of Your face .
*
In Your name they shall rejoice all the day ;
and in Your righteousness they shall be lifted up .
*
For You [
are ]
the glory of their strength ;
and in Your favor our horn shall be lifted up .
*
For the LORD [
is ]
our shield ;
yea ,
our king [
is ]
the Holy One of Israel .
*
Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one ,
and You said ,
I have laid help on a mighty one ;
I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people .
*
I have found David ,
My servant ;
with My holy oil I have anointed him .
*
My hand shall be always with him ;
My arm also shall make him strong .
*
The enemy shall not use force on him ,
nor the son of wickedness afflict him .
*
And I will beat down his foes before his face ,
and plague those who hate him .
*
But My faithfulness and My mercy [
shall be ]
with him ;
and in My name his horn [
shall be ]
lifted up .
*
I will set his hand also 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 stand fast with him .
*
Also I have set 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 wickedness with the rod ,
and their sin with stripes .
*
But I will not completely take My loving-kindness from him ,
and I will not be false in My faithfulness .
*
I will not break My covenant ,
nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips .
*
Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David .
*
His seed shall endure forever ,
and his throne as the sun before Me .
*
It shall be established forever like the moon ,
and [
like ]
a faithful witness in the heavens .
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 to 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 .
*
You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle .
*
You have made his glory to cease ,
and have thrown his throne down to the ground .
*
The days of his youth You have shortened ;
You have covered him [
with ]
shame .
Selah .
*
How long ,
LORD ?
Will You hide Yourself forever ?
Shall Your wrath burn like fire ?
*
Remember ,
I pray ,
how short my time is ;
why have You made all men in vain ?
*
What man lives and never sees death ?
Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ?
Selah .
*
O Lord ,
where [
are ]
Your former loving-kindnesses [
which ]
You swore to David in Your truth ?
*
Remember ,
Lord ,
the scorn of Your servants ; [
how ]
I bear in my bosom the insult of all the mighty people ,
* [
with ]
which Your enemies have cursed ,
O LORD ; [
with ]
which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed .
*
Blessed [
is ]
the LORD forevermore .
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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