DR — Douay-Rheims Bible

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A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

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But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.

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Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

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For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

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They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

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Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

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Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

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They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

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They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

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Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

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And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

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And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

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And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

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If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

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I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

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Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

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But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

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How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

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As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

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For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:

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and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

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I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.

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Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

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For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

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For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

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For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

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But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

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Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

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Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

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And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

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and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

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they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

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They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.

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They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

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Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

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How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

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Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever ?

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But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.

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Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.

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Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

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Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

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Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

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Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.

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Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.

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Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

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Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.

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Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

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Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.

75:1

Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:

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when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

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The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

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I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

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Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

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For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

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for God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

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for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

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But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

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And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

76:1

Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the Assyrians. In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.

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And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:

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There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battie.

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Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

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All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

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At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

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Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

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Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

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When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

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For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

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Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,

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even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

77:1

Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

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In the day of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

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I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

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My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

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I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.

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And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.

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Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?

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Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation?

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Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

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And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High.

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I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning.

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And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions.

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Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God?

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Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power known among the nations:

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with thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

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The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled.

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Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass:

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the voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.

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Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

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Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron

78:1

Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

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How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

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And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:

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that another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

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That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

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That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

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They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

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And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

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Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

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He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

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And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of

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He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

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He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

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And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

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And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

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And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

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Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

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Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

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And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

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And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

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Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

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He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

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And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

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And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

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So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:

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they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

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and the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

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In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.

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And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

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When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

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And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

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And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

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But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

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But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

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And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

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How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

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And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

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They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

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How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

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And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink.

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He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.

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And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

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And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

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And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

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And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

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He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

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And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

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And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

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And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

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Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

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And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

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They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

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God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

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And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

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And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

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And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

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Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

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Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

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And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

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And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

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And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

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But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

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And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

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And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

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To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

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And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.

79:1

A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

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They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

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They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

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We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

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Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

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Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.

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Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.

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Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

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Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

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let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

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And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.

80:1

Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

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before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

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Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

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O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

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How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

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Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

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O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

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Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

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Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

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The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

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It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

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Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

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The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

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Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

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And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

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Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

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And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

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O Lord God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

81:1

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

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Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

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For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

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He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

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He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

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Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

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Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

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there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

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For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

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So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

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If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

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I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

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The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

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And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

82:1

A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

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How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

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Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

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Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

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They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

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I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

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But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

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Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

83:1

A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

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For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

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They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

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They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

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For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,

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the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

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Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

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Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

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Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

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Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

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Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

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who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

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O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

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As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

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So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

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Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

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Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

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And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

84:1

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of host!

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my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

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For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

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Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

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Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

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in the vale of tears, in the place which be hath set.

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For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

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O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.

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Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.

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For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

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For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

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He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence : O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

85:1

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

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Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.

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Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou best turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

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Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.

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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?

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Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

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Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.

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I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.

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Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.

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Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

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Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.

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For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.

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Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.

86:1

A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

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Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

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Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

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Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

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For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

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Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

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I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

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There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

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All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

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For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

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Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

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I will praise thee, O Lord my God: with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

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For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

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O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

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And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.

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O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

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Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

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For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

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The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

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Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

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I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

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Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

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The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

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The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

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A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

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Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

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For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

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I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

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free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.

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They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

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Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

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Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

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my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

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Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

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But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

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Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

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I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

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Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

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They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

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Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

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Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

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For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

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I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

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Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

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The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

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For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

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God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

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O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

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Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

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Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

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Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

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the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

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thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

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justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

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blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

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and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

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For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.

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For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.

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Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.

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I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

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For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.

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The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.

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And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.

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And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.

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He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

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And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

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I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

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And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

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And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

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If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:

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I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes.

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But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.

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Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.

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Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:

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his seed shall endure for ever.

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And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

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But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed.

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Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

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Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

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All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

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Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

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Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.

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Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.

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Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.

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How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

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Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

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Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

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Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?

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Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:

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Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.

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Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.