Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Psalm 37
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(38) A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day.
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O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.
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For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me.
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For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.
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For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
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My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
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I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.
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For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
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I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.
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But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
10
My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.
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My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.
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While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.
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But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
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And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
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For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.
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For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.
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For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.
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For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.
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But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.
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They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.
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Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.
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Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
Psalm 38
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(39) For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun.
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I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.
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I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed.
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My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,
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O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
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Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.
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Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
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And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with you. Pause.
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Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.
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I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.
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Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.
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You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.
12
O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.
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Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
Psalm 39
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(40) For the end, a Psalm of David.
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I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication.
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And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.
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And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.
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Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.
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O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.
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Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require.
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Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
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I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of my heart.
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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.
10
I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.
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But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.
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For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.
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Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me.
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Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.
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Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward.
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Let all those that seek you, O Lord, exult and rejoice in you; and let them that love your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
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But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; you are my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Psalm 40
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(41) For the end, a Psalm of David.
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Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.
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May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
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May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; you have made all his bed in his sickness.
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I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
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Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?
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And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.
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All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt.
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They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?
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For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.
10
But you, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them.
11
By this I know that you have delighted in me, because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
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But you did help me because of my innocence, and have established me before you for ever.
13
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.
Psalm 41
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(42) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core.
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As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God.
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My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
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My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?
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I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of your wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.
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Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance.
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O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill.
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Deep calls to deep at the voice of your cataracts: all your billows and your waves have gone over me.
8
By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.
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I will say to God, You are my helper; why have you forgotten me? therefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me ?
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While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?
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Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalm 42
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(43) A Psalm of David.
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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.
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For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me ?
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Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles.
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And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God.
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Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Psalm 43
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(44) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core.
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O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.
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Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.
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For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.
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You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.
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In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.
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For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.
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For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.
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In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.
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But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.
10
You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.
11
You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us among the nations.
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You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.
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You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
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You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
15
All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
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because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.
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All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant.
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And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.
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For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
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for he knows the secrets of the heart.
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For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
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Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.
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Therefore turn you your face away, and forget our poverty and our affliction?
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For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.
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Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.
Psalm 44
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(45) For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved.
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My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.
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You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
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Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;
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and bend your bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully.
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Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) they are in the heart of the king's enemies.
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Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.
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You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows.
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Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from your garments, and out of the ivory palaces,
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with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in various colors.
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Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.
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Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord.
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And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.
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All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed as she is in golden fringed garments,
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in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you.
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They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.
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Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth.
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They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.
Psalm 45
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(46) For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things.
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God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.
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Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.
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Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause.
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The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.
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God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance.
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The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.
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The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.
8
Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.
9
Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.
10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
11
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia: Glory to Thee, O God.
O Lord, our hope, glory to Thee.