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 21
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- Psalm 21 For the director of music. A psalm of David.
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- O LORD, the king rejoices in your strength. How great is his joy in the victories you give!
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- You have granted him the desire of his heart and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
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- You welcomed him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head.
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- He asked you for life, and you gave it to him-- length of days, for ever and ever.
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- Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.
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- Surely you have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence.
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- For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.
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- Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes.
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- At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the LORD will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.
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- You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind.
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- Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed;
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- for you will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.
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- Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might.
Psalm 117
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- Psalm 117
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- Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.
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- For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.
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.