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Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

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Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

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Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

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Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

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I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

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Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

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They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

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A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

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I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

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I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

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“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

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I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.

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The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

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For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

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a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

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Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

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You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

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You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

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The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

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The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

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You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

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Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

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In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

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For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

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For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

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Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

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I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

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with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

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No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

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I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

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But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

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I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

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He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

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I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

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I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

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If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

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if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

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then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

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I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

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Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

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His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

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It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.

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But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

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You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

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You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

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All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

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You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

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Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

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You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

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You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

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How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

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Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

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Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

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Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

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With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

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Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen.

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BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.

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Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

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Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

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In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

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For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

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You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

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For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

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The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

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So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

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Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

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Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

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Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

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He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

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For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

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He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

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You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

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nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

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A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

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You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

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Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

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no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

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For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

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They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

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You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

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“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

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He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

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A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.

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It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;

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to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

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with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.