Psalm 28
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- Psalm 28 Of David.
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- To you I call, O LORD my Rock; do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down to the pit.
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- Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
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- Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.
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- Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work; repay them for what their hands have done and bring back upon them what they deserve.
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- Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD and what his hands have done, he will tear them down and never build them up again.
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- Praise be to the LORD, for he has heard my cry for mercy.
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- The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
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- The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
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- Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Psalm 113
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- Psalm 113
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- Praise the LORD. [1] Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
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- Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.
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- From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
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- The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
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- Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
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- who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
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- He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
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- he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people.
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- He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 110
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- Psalm 110 Of David. A psalm.
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- The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."
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- The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.
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- Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth. [1]
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- The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
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- The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
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- He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
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- He will drink from a brook beside the way [2] ; therefore he will lift up his head.
Psalm 12
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- Psalm 12 For the director of music. According to sheminith. [1] A psalm of David.
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- Help, LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
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- Everyone lies to his neighbor; their flattering lips speak with deception.
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- May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue
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- that says, "We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips [2] --who is our master?"
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- "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD. "I will protect them from those who malign them."
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- And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.
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- O LORD, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever.
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- The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.
Psalm 113
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- Psalm 113
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- Praise the LORD. [1] Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
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- Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.
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- From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
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- The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
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- Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
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- who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
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- He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
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- he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people.
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- He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 120
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- Psalm 120 A song of ascents.
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- I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
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- Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
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- What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
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- He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
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- Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
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- Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
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- I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalm 1
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- Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
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- But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
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- He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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- Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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- Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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- For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.