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- O Lord God the auenger, O God the auenger, shewe thy selfe clearely.
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- Exalt thy selfe, O Iudge of the worlde, and render a reward to the proude.
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- Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
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- They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
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- They smite downe thy people, O Lorde, and trouble thine heritage.
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- They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.
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- Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.
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- Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
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- Hee that planted the eare, shall hee not heare?
or he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
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- Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct?
hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?
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- The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.
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- Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,
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- That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of euill, whiles the pitte is digged for the wicked.
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- Surely the Lorde will not faile his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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- For iudgement shal returne to iustice, and all the vpright in heart shall followe after it.
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- Who will rise vp with me against the wicked?
or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?
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- If the Lord had not holpen me, my soule had almost dwelt in silence.
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- When I said, My foote slideth, thy mercy, O Lord, stayed me.
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- In the multitude of my thoughts in mine heart, thy comfortes haue reioyced my soule.
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- Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?
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- They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.
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- But the Lorde is my refuge, and my God is the rocke of mine hope.
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- And hee will recompence them their wickednes, and destroy them in their owne malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.
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