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- {[A Psalm] of David.}
Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name!
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- Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
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- Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases;
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- Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
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- Who satisfieth thine old age with good [things];
thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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- Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.
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- He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
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- Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
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- He will not always chide, neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.
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- He hath not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
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- For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.
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- As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
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- As a father pitieth [his] children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
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- For himself knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.
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- As for man, his days are as grass;
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
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- For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
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- But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,
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- To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.
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- Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
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- Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
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- Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts;
ye ministers of his that do his will.
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- Bless Jehovah, all his works, in all places of his dominion.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul!
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