To Be Determined

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Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

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Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

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Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

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For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.

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My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

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You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

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In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

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Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

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Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

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You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

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All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

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Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

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Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

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So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

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The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

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The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

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She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

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With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.

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Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

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I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.

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For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

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though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

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There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

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God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

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The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

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Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

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Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

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He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

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“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the Sons of Korah.

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Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

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For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

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He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

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He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

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God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

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Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

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For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

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God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

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The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!

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A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

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Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

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Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

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God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

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For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

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They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

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Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

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With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

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As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

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We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst of your temple.

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As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

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Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

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Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

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Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

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For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

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Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

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both low and high, rich and poor together.

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My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

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I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

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Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

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Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches–

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none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

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For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

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That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

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For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

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But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

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This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

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They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

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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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Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

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For when he dies 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 you when you do well for yourself–

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he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

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A Psalm by Asaph.

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The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

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Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

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He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

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“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

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The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

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“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

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I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

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For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

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I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

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If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

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Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

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But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

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since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

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“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.