Psalm 120
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- Psalm 120 A song of ascents.
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- I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
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- Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
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- What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
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- He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
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- Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
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- Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
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- I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalm 6
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- Psalm 6 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. [1] A psalm of David.
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- O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
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- Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
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- My soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long?
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- Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
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- No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave [2] ?
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- I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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- My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
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- Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
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- The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
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- All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.
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 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 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 103
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- Psalm 103 Of David.
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- Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
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- Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits--
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- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
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- who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
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- who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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- The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
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- He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel:
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- The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
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- He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;
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- he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
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- For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
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- as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
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- As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
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- for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
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- As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field;
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- the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
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- But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children--
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- with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
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- The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.
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- Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word.
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- Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will.
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- Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Psalm 11
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- Psalm 11 For the director of music. Of David.
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- In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: "Flee like a bird to your mountain.
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- For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
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- When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do [1] ?"
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- The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them.
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- The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked [2] and those who love violence his soul hates.
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- On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
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- For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face.