To Be Determined

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You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

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Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

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Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

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Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

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Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

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Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

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Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

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For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

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We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

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When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

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The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

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I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

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Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

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For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

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But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

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For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

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But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

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I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

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For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

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In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

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His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

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There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

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Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

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Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

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At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

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You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

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You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

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when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

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Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

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Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

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He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.

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For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.

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My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

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I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

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You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

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I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

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“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

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Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

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Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

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Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

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I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

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I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

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Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

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You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

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You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

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The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

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The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

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The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

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Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

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You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A contemplation by Asaph.

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A contemplation by Asaph.

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Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

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I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

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that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

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and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

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They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

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They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

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In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

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He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?”

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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

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because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

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He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

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Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

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He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

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He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

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So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

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They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

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When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

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But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

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he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.