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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. |
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For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
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Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles. |
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Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. |
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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. |
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We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old. |
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Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad. |
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For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them. |
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Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob. |
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Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
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For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me. |
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But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us. |
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In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah |
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But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts. |
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Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves. |
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Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. |
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Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price. |
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us. |
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Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. |
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All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me, |
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger. |
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All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
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Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way, |
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That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. |
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; |
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Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth. |
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Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake. For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. |
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My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. |
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Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. |
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Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory and thy majesty. |
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And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness and righteousness: And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
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Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king's enemies. |
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Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom. |
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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
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All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad. |
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Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir. |
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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house: |
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So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him. |
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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor. |
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The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious: Her clothing is inwrought with gold. |
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She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: The virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee. |
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With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall enter into the king's palace. |
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Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth. |
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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song. |
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Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, |
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Both low and high, Rich and poor together. |
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My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. |
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I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. |
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Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about? |
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They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; |
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None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him; |
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(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever;) |
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That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption. |
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For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others. |
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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. |
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But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. |
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This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah |
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They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it. |
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But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah |
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Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased. |
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For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. |
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Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,) |
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He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light. |
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Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish. A Psalm of Asaph. |
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How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! |
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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God. |
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Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God. |
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Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah |
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Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion. |
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Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings. |
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They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion. |
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O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah |
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Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed. |
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. |
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For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. |
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O Jehovah of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. |
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Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. |
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Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah |
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Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. |
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Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease. |
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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? |
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Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee? |
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Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, And grant us thy salvation. |
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I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly. |
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Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land. |
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Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. |
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Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven. |
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Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase. |
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Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way to walk in. A Prayer of David |
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His foundation is in the holy mountains. |
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Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob. |
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Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah |
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I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there. |
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Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; And the Most High himself will establish her. |
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Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah |
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They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All my fountains are in thee. A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. |