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[1]I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. |
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[2]The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. |
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[3]I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies. |
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[4]The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. |
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[5]The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. |
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[6]And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears. |
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[7]Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them. |
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[8]There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it. |
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[9]And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet. |
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[10]And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds. |
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[11]And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air. |
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[12]At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. |
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[13]The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice. |
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[14]And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. |
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[15]And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath. |
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[16]He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters. |
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[17]He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I. |
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[18]They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them. |
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[19]And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me. |
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[20]And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me. |
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[21]For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. |
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[22]For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me. |
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[23]And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity. |
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[24]And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. |
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[25]With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent. |
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[26]And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness. |
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[27]For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud. |
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[28]For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness. |
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[29]For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall. |
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[30]As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him. |
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[31]For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God? |
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[32]It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless: |
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[33]who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places. |
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[34]He instructs my hands for war: and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow. |
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[35]And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me. |
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[36]Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail. |
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[37]I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed. |
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[38]I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. |
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[39]For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me. |
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[40]And thou has made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me. |
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[41]They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them. |
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[42]I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind. |
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[43]Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me, |
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[44]at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me. |
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[45]The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness. |
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[46]The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. |
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[47]It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me; |
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[48]my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man. |
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[49]Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name. |
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[50]God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever. |