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| [1]It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High; |
[1]Laus cantici ipsi David, in die ante sabbatum, quando fundata est terra. Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est: indutus est Dominus fortitudinem, et præcinxit se. Etenim firmavit orbem terræ, qui non commovebitur. |
| [2]to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth by night, |
[2]Parata sedes tua ex tunc; a sæculo tu es. |
| [3]on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp. |
[3]Elevaverunt flumina, Domine, elevaverunt flumina vocem suam, elevaverunt flumina fluctus suos, |
| [4]For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work: and in the operations of thy hands will I exult. |
[4]a vocibus aquarum multarum. Mirabiles elationes maris; mirabilis in altis Dominus. |
| [5]How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! thy thoughts are very deep. |
[5]Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt nimis; domum tuam decet sanctitudo, Domine, in longitudinem dierum. |
| [6]A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. |
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| [7]When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. |
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| [8]But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever. |
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| [9]For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. |
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| [10] But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy. |
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| [11]And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me. |
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| [12]The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus. |
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| [13]They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. |
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| [14]Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare |
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| [15]that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him. |
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