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For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

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Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

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They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish– vanish like smoke.

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The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

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For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

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A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

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Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

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Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

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For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

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The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

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The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

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The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

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The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

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Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

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Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

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But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

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As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

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But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

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Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

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A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

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Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

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For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

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There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

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For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

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My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

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I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

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For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

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I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

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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.