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For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

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A Psalm by David.

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I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.

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I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

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I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

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A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

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I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

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My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

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He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

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Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

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A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

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Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

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For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

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My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

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By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

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I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

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My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

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For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

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Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

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My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

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But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

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You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

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For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

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So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; all the kings of the earth your glory.

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For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

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He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

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This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

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For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

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to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

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that men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

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when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

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He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

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I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

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Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

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They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

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But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

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The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you.”

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By David.

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Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits;

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who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;

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who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

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who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

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He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

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Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

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He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

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He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

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For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

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As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

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Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

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As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

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to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

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Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

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Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

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Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

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Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!

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Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

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He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

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He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

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He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire.

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He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

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You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

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At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

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The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

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You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

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He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

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They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

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He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

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He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

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wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

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Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

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where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

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The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

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You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

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The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

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Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

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There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

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There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

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These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

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You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

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You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

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You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

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Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

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He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

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I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

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Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

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Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

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Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

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Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

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Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

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Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.