Psalms:8.
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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But thou ,
O Lord ,
art a God full of compassion ,
and gracious ,
longsuffering ,
and plenteous in mercy and truth .
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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 .
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His foundation is in the holy mountains .
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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 .
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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 .
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O LORD God of my salvation ,
I have cried day and night before thee :
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Let my prayer come before thee :
incline thine ear unto my cry ;
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For my soul is full of troubles :
and my life draweth nigh unto the grave .
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I am counted with them that go down into the pit :
I am as a man that hath no strength :
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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 .
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Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit ,
in darkness ,
in the deeps .
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me ,
and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves .
Selah .
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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 .
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Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction :
LORD ,
I have called daily upon thee ,
I have stretched out my hands unto thee .
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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead ?
shall the dead arise and praise thee ?
Selah .
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Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave ?
or thy faithfulness in destruction ?
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark ?
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ?
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But unto thee have I cried ,
O LORD ;
and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee .
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LORD ,
why castest thou off my soul ?
why hidest thou thy face from me ?
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I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up :
while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted .
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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me ;
thy terrors have cut me off .
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They came round about me daily like water ;
they compassed me about together .
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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me ,
and mine acquaintance into darkness .
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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 .
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I have made a covenant with my chosen ,
I have sworn unto David my servant ,
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Thy seed will I establish for ever ,
and build up thy throne to all generations .
Selah .
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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 ?
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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 .
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O LORD God of hosts ,
who is a strong LORD like unto thee ?
or to thy faithfulness round about thee ?
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Thou rulest the raging of the sea :
when the waves thereof arise ,
thou stillest them .
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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces ,
as one that is slain ;
thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm .
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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 .
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Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne :
mercy and truth shall go before thy face .
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Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound :
they shall walk ,
O LORD ,
in the light of thy countenance .
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In thy name shall they rejoice all the day :
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted .
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For thou art the glory of their strength :
and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted .
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For the LORD is our defence ;
and the Holy One of Israel is our king .
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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 .
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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 .
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The enemy shall not exact upon him ;
nor the son of wickedness afflict him .
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And I will beat down his foes before his face ,
and plague them that hate him .
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But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him :
and in my name shall his horn be exalted .
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I will set his hand also in the sea ,
and his right hand in the rivers .
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He shall cry unto me ,
Thou art my father ,
my God ,
and the rock of my salvation .
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Also I will make him my firstborn ,
higher than the kings of the earth .
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My mercy will I keep for him for evermore ,
and my covenant shall stand fast with him .
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His seed also will I make to endure for ever ,
and his throne as the days of heaven .
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If his children forsake my law ,
and walk not in my judgments ;
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If they break my statutes ,
and keep not my commandments ;
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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod ,
and their iniquity with stripes .
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Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him ,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail .
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My covenant will I not break ,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips .
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Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David .
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His seed shall endure for ever ,
and his throne as the sun before me .
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It shall be established for ever as the moon ,
and as a faithful witness in heaven .
Selah .
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But thou hast cast off and abhorred ,
thou hast been wroth with thine anointed .
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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant :
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground .
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Thou hast broken down all his hedges ;
thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin .
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All that pass by the way spoil him :
he is a reproach to his neighbours .
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Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries ;
thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice .
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Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword ,
and hast not made him to stand in the battle .
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Thou hast made his glory to cease ,
and cast his throne down to the ground .
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The days of his youth hast thou shortened :
thou hast covered him with shame .
Selah .
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How long ,
LORD ?
wilt thou hide thyself for ever ?
shall thy wrath burn like fire ?
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Remember how short my time is :
wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ?
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What man is he that liveth ,
and shall not see death ?
shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ?
Selah .
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Lord ,
where are thy former lovingkindnesses ,
which thou swarest unto David in thy truth ?
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Remember ,
Lord ,
the reproach of thy servants ;
how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people ;
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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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