Psalm 50
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- Psalm 50 A psalm of Asaph.
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- The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
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- From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
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- Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
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- He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:
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- "Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
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- And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah
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- "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
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- I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
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- I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
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- for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
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- I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine.
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- If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
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- Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
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- Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
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- and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
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- But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
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- You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
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- When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
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- You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
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- You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
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- These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether [1] like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
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- "Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue:
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- He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him [2] the salvation of God."
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 133
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- Psalm 133 A song of ascents. Of David.
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- How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
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- It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard, down upon the collar of his robes.
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- It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
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 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 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.