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- <To the chief music-maker on Muthlabben.
A Psalm. Of David.>
I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works.
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- I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.
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- When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
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- For you gave approval to my right and my cause;
you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
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- You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.
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- You have given their towns to destruction;
the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.
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- But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
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- And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
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- The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;
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- And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you;
because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
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- Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
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- When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
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- Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters;
let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
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- So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
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- The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
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- The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made.
(Higgaion. Selah.)
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- The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
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- For the poor will not be without help;
the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.
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- Up!
O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.
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- Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men.
(Selah.)
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