To Be Determined

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If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.


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Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”


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Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.


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Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.


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By David.


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I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.


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I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.


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In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.


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All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.


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Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh’s glory.


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For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.


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Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands. For the Chief Musician.


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A Psalm by David.


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Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.


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You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.


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You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.


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For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.


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You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.


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This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.


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Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?


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If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!


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If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;


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Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.


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If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;”


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even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.


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For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.


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I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.


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My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.


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Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.


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How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!


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If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.


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If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!


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For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.


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Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?


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I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.


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Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.


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See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.


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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


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Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;


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those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.


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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.


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Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.


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The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.


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I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.


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Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.


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Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.


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As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.


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Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.


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An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.


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I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.


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Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.


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A Psalm by David.


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Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.


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Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.


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Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.


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Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.


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Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.


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Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.


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“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”


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For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.


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Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.


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Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.


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A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.


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I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.


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I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.


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Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.


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I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”


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Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.


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Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.


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A Psalm by David.


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Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.


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Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.


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For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.


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Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.


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I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.


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I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.


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Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.


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Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.


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Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.


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Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.


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In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.


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By David.


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Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:


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my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.


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Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?


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Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.


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Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.


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Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.


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Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;


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whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.


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You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.


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Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.


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Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.


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Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.