Psalm 20
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- Psalm 20 For the director of music. A psalm of David.
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- May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
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- May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
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- May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. Selah
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- May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
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- We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.
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- Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.
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- Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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- They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
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- O LORD, save the king! Answer [1] us when we call!
Psalm 150
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- Psalm 150
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- Praise the LORD. [1] Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.
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- Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.
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- Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,
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- praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,
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- praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.
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- Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 2
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- Psalm 2
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- Why do the nations conspire [1] and the peoples plot in vain?
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- The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. [2]
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- "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."
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- The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
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- Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
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- "I have installed my King [3] on Zion, my holy hill."
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- I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son [4] ; today I have become your Father. [5]
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- Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
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- You will rule them with an iron scepter [6] ; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
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- Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.
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- Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.
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- Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Psalm 137
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- Psalm 137
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- By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
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- There on the poplars we hung our harps,
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- for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
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- How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
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- If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].
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- May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
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- Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"
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- O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--
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- he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
Psalm 134
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- Psalm 134 A song of ascents.
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- Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.
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- Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.
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- May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
Psalm 127
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- Psalm 127 A song of ascents. Of Solomon.
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- Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.
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- In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-- for he grants sleep to [1] those he loves.
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- Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.
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- Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth.
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- Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.
Psalm 124
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- Psalm 124 A song of ascents. Of David.
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- If the LORD had not been on our side-- let Israel say--
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- if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
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- when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive;
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- the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,
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- the raging waters would have swept us away.
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- Praise be to the LORD, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
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- We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
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- Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.