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Psalm 9- 1
- Psalm 9 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Death of the Son." A psalm of David. [1]
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- I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.
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- I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
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- My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
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- For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
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- You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
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- Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
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- The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
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- He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
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- The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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- Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
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- Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
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- For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
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- O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
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- that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
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- The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
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- The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion. [2] Selah
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- The wicked return to the grave, [3] all the nations that forget God.
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- But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
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- Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
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- Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
Psalm 26- 1
- 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 22- 1
- Psalm 22 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David.
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- My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
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- O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.
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- Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. [1]
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- In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
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- They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
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- But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
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- All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
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- "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."
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- Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.
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- From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
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- Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
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- Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
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- Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.
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- I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.
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- My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me [2] in the dust of death.
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- Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced [3] my hands and my feet.
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- I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
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- They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
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- But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
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- Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
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- Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save [4] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
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- I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.
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- You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
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- For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
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- From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you [5] will I fulfill my vows.
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- The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him-- may your hearts live forever!
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- All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
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- for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
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- All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him-- those who cannot keep themselves alive.
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- Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
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- They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn-- for he has done it.
Psalm 98- 1
- Psalm 98 A psalm.
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- Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
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- The LORD has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.
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- He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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- Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
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- make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,
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- with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn-- shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
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- Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
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- Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;
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- let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.
Psalm 113- 1
- 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 101- 1
- 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 116- 1
- Psalm 116
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- I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
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- Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
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- The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave [1] came upon me; I was overcome by trouble and sorrow.
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- Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, save me!"
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- The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.
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- The LORD protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me.
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- Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
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- For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,
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- that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
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- I believed; therefore [2] I said, "I am greatly afflicted."
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- And in my dismay I said, "All men are liars."
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- How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?
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- I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
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- I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
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- Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
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- O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant [3] ; you have freed me from my chains.
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- I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the LORD.
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- I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,
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- in the courts of the house of the LORD-- in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD. [4]
Psalm 15- 1
- Psalm 15 A psalm of David.
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- LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?
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- He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
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- and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,
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- who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the LORD, who keeps his oath even when it hurts,
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- who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.