Psalm 2
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- Psalm 2
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- Why do the nations conspire [1] and the peoples plot in vain?
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- The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. [2]
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- "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."
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- The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
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- Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
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- "I have installed my King [3] on Zion, my holy hill."
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- I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son [4] ; today I have become your Father. [5]
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- Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
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- You will rule them with an iron scepter [6] ; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
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- Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.
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- Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.
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- Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take
Psalm 13
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- Psalm 13 For the director of music. A psalm of David.
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- How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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- How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?
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- Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
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- my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
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- But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
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- I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me.
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.
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 11
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- Psalm 11 For the director of music. Of David.
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- In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: "Flee like a bird to your mountain.
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- For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
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- When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do [1] ?"
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- The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them.
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- The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked [2] and those who love violence his soul hates.
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- On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
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- For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face.
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 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.