Psalm 10
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- Psalm 10
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- Why, O LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
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- In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
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- He boasts of the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
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- In his pride the wicked does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
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- His ways are always prosperous; he is haughty and your laws are far from him; he sneers at all his enemies.
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- He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me; I'll always be happy and never have trouble."
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- His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue.
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- He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent, watching in secret for his victims.
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- He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
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- His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.
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- He says to himself, "God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees."
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- Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
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- Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, "He won't call me to account"?
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- But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
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- Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out.
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- The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land.
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- You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
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- defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.
Psalm 117
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- Psalm 117
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- Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.
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- For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 100
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- Psalm 100 A psalm. For giving thanks.
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- Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
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- Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
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- Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his [1] ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
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- Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
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- For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 114
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- Psalm 114
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- When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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- Judah became God's sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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- The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
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- the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
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- Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
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- you mountains, that you skipped like rams, you hills, like lambs?
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- Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
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- who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.
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 113
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- Psalm 113
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- Praise the LORD. [1] Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
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- Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.
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- From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
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- The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
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- Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
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- who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
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- He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
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- he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people.
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- He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.
Psalm 1
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- Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
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- But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
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- He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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- Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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- Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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- For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.