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| In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
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| Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
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| Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
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| Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
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| For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
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| By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
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| I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
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| Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
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| Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
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| For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
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| Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
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| O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
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| Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
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| But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
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| My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
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| I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
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| O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
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| Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
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| Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
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| Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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| Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
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| I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
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| My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
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| My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
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| Analysis
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| Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
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| He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
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| The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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| He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
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| They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
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| He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
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| In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
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| He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
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| They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
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| The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
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| Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
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| For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
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| He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
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| He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
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| And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
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| There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
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| His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
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| Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
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| And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
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| The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
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| Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
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| But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
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| For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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| For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
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| They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
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| Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
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| Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
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| They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
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| They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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| Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
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| And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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| Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
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| Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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| For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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| If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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| When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
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| Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
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| Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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| How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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| As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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| Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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| So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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| Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
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| Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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| Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
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| My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
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| For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
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| But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
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| Analysis
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| O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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| Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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| Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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| Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
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| A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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| But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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| They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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| They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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| We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
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| O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
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| Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
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| For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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| Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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| Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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| Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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| The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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| Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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| Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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| O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
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| Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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| O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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| Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
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| Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
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| Analysis
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| I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
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| In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
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| I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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| Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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| I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
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| I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
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| Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
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| Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
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| Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
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| And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
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| I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
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| I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
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| Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
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| Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
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| Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
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| The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
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| The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
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| The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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| Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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| Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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| Analysis
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| Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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| I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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| Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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| We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
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| For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
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| That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
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| That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
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| And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
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| The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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| They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
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| And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
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| Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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| He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
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| In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
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| He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
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| He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
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| And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
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| And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
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| Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
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| Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
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| Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
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| Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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| Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
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| And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
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| Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
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| He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
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| He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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| And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
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| So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
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| They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
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| The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
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| For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
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| Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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| When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
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| And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
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| Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
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| For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
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| But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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| For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
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| How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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| Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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| They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
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| How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
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| And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
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| He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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| He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
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| He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
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| He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
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| He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
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| He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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| And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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| But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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| And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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| And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
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| He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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| Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
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| But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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| For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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| When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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| So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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| And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
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| He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
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| The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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| Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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| Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
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| And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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| Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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| But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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| And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
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| He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
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| From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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| So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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| Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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| Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
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| Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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| O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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| Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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| Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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| Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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| Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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| Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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| The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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| She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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| Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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| The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
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| Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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| And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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| It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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| Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
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| So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
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| Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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