To Be Determined

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Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

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My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

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They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

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Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

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For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

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For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

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For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

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But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

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They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

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Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

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Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

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For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.

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I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

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I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

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My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

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“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

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Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

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“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

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Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

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I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

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Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

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When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

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“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

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I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

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He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

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Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

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Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

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Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

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I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

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I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

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I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

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Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

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For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

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Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

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Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

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Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

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But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

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Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

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Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

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I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

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My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

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All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

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“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

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Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

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As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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BOOK II For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

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As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

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My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

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These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

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My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

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Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

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Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

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I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

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For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

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Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

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Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.

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We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

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You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

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For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

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You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

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Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who 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 you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

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In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

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But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

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You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

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You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

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You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

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You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

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You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

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At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

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All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

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Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

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Though you have crushed us in the haunt 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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won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.