Psalm 114
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- Psalm 114
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- When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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- Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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- The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
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- the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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- Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
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- you mountains, that you skipped like rams, you hills, like lambs?
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- Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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- who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
Psalm 20
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- Psalm 20 For the director of music. A psalm of David.
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- May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
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- May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
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- May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. Selah
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- May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
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- We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.
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- Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.
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- Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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- They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
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- O LORD, save the king! Answer us when we call!
Psalm 121
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- Psalm 121 A song of ascents.
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- I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help come from?
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- My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
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- He will not let your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber;
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- indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
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- The LORD watches over you-- the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
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- the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
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- The LORD will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life;
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- the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Psalm 134
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- Psalm 134 A song of ascents.
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- Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.
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- Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.
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- May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Psalm 8
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- Psalm 8 For the director of music. According to gittith. [1] A psalm of David.
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- O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
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- From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise [2] because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
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- When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
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- what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
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- You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [3] and crowned him with glory and honor.
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- You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
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- all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
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- the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
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- O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 6
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- Psalm 6 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. [1] A psalm of David.
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- O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
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- Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
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- My soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long?
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- Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
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- No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave [2] ?
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- I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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- My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
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- Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
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- The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
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- All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
Psalm 3
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- Psalm 3 A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.
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- O LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!
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- Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him." Selah [1]
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- But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift [2] up my head.
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- To the LORD I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah
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- I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.
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- I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.
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- Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
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- From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people. Selah