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Psalm 52
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- Psalm 52 For the director of music. A maskil [1] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech."
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- Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
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- Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit.
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- You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. Selah
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- You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!
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- Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
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- The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at him, saying,
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- "Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!"
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- But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
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- I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
Psalm 129
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- Psalm 129 A song of ascents.
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- They have greatly oppressed me from my youth-- let Israel say--
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- they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.
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- Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
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- But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.
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- May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
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- May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;
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- with it the reaper cannot fill his hands, nor the one who gathers fill his arms.
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- May those who pass by not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD."
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 102
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- Psalm 102 A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint and pours out his lament before the LORD.
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- Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
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- Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.
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- For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
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- My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
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- Because of my loud groaning I am reduced to skin and bones.
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- I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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- I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.
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- All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
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- For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
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- because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
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- My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
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- But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
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- You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.
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- For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
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- The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.
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- For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.
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- He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
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- Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:
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- "The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
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- to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."
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- So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem
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- when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
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- In the course of my life [1] he broke my strength; he cut short my days.
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- So I said: "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.
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- In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
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- They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
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- But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
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- The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you."
Psalm 19
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- Psalm 19 For the director of music. A psalm of David.
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- The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
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- Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.
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- There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. [1]
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- Their voice [2] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
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- which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
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- It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.
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- The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
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- The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
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- The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous.
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- They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
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- By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
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- Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults.
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- Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.
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- May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 113
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- Psalm 113
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- Praise the LORD. 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 100
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- Psalm 100 A psalm. For giving thanks.
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- Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
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- Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
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- Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his [1] ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
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- Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
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- For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
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 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 26
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- Psalm 26 Of David.
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- Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
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- Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;
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- for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.
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- I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites;
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- I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked.
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- I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, O LORD,
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- proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds.
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- I love the house where you live, O LORD, the place where your glory dwells.
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- Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with bloodthirsty men,
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- in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
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- But I lead a blameless life; redeem me and be merciful to me.
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- My feet stand on level ground; in the great assembly I will praise the LORD.
Psalm 101
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- Psalm 101 Of David. A psalm.
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- I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will sing praise.
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- I will be careful to lead a blameless life-- when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
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- I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me.
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- Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil.
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- Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.
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- My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he whose walk is blameless will minister to me.
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- No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.
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- Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
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 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 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 60
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- Psalm 60 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Lily of the Covenant." A miktam [1] of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim [2] and Aram Zobah, [3] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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- You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry--now restore us!
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- You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking.
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- You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
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- But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow. Selah
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- Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.
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- God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.
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- Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.
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- Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph."
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- Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
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- Is it not you, O God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?
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- Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
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- With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
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 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 131
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- Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David.
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- My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.
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- But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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- O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.
Psalm 78- 1
- Psalm 78 A maskil [1] of Asaph.
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- O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
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- I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old--
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- what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.
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- We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
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- He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
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- so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
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- Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
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- They would not be like their forefathers-- a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
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- The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
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- they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
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- They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
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- He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
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- He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
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- He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
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- He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
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- he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
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- But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
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- They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
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- They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
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- When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"
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- When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
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- for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
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- Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
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- he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
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- Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
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- He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
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- He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
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- He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
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- They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
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- But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
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- God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
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- In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
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- So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
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- Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
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- They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
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- But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
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- their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
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- Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
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- He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
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- How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
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- Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
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- They did not remember his power-- the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
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- the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
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- He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.
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- He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
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- He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
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- He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
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- He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
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- He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility-- a band of destroying angels.
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- He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
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- He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
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- But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.
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- He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
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- Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
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- He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
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- But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
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- Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
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- They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
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- When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
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- He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
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- He sent [the ark of] his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
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- He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
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- Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
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- their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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- Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
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- He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
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- Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
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- but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
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- He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
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- He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
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- from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
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- And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.
Psalm 73- 1
- Psalm 73 A psalm of Asaph.
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- Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
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- But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.
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- For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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- They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong. [1]
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- They are free from the burdens common to man; they are not plagued by human ills.
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- Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
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- From their callous hearts comes iniquity [2] ; the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
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- They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
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- Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.
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- Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance. [3]
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- They say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"
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- This is what the wicked are like-- always carefree, they increase in wealth.
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- Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure; in vain have I washed my hands in innocence.
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- All day long I have been plagued; I have been punished every morning.
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- If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed your children.
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- When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me
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- till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
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- Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.
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- How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
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- As a dream when one awakes, so when you arise, O Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.
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- When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,
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- I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.
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- Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.
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- You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.
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- Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
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- My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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- Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.
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- But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.