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- Let the Lord be praised.
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
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- While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
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- Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
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- Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust;
in that day all his purposes come to an end.
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- Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
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- Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them;
who keeps faith for ever:
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- Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down;
and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
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- The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind;
the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
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- The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land;
he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
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- The Lord will be King for ever;
your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.
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