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- In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city;
salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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- Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.
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- Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed [on thee], for he confideth in thee.
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- Confide ye in Jehovah for ever;
for in Jah, Jehovah, is the rock of ages.
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- For he bringeth down them that dwell on high;
the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust.
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- The foot shall tread it down, — the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.
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- The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.
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- Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee;
the desire of [our] soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.
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- With my soul have I desired thee in the night;
yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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- If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.
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- Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: [yet] they shall see [thy] jealousy [for] the people, and be ashamed;
yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.
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- Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us;
for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.
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- Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us;
by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
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- [They are] dead, they shall not live;
deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
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- Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified.
Thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
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- Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee;
they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
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- As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs;
so have we been before thee, Jehovah.
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- We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind;
we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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- Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
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- Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee;
hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
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- For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them;
and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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