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 130
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- Psalm 130 A song of ascents.
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- Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
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- O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
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- If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?
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- But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared.
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- I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
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- My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
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- O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
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- He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
Psalm 122
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- Psalm 122 A song of ascents. Of David.
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- I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."
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- Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.
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- That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.
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- There the thrones for judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
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- Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure.
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- May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels."
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- For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."
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- For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
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 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 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 [1] us when we call!
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.