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[A Psalm] of David.

BLESSED be Jehovah, my rock ;

He who instructs my hands for the conflict,

My fingers for the battle;

2 My loving-kindness and my fortress,

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My high tower, and my deliverer,

My shield, and in him I trust ;

He that subdues my people under me.

Jehovah, what is man, that thou shouldst know him,

A son of man, that thou shouldst think of him?

4 Man is like a breath;

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His days as a passing shadow.

Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; Touch the mountains, that they smoke.

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;

Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

7 Send thy hands from on high,

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Wrest me, and rescue me out of the great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens.

8 Whose mouth speaks deception,

And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

O God, a new song will I sing to thee ;

With a ten-stringed lute will I sing praise to thee.

10 Who gives deliverance to kings;

Who wrests David, his servant, from the hurtful sword. 11 Wrest me, and rescue me from the hand of aliens; Whose mouth speaks deception,

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And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
So that our sons may be as plants,

Full grown in their youth;

Our daughters as corner pillars,

Sculptured after the structure of a palace; 13 Our garners full, supplying of every kind; Our flocks multiplying by thousands,

By tens of thousands, in our fields;

14 Our oxen laden;

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No breaking in, nor going forth,
And no outcry in our streets.

Happy the people to whom it is thus;
Happy the people whose God is Jehovah!

PSALM CXLV.

A Hymn of David.

1 I WILL extol thee my God, O king,

And will bless thy name forever and ever. 2 Every day will I bless thee,

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And praise thy name forever and ever.

Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, And his greatness is unsearchable.

4 Generation to generation shall praise thy works, And shall declare thy mighty acts.

5 The glorious honor of thy majesty,

And thy wondrous works will I sing.

And the might of thy terrible acts let them tell;
And thy great deeds will I rehearse.

7 Let them pour forth the memory of thy great goodness, And sing aloud of thy righteousness.

8 Gracious and compassionate is Jehovah; Slow to anger, and of great mercy.

9 Jehovah is good to all,

And his compassions are over all his works. 10 Let all thy works praise thee, O Jehovah, And thy saints bless thee.

11 Let them tell the glory of thy kingdom, And speak of thy power;

V. 14, 1st member. Laden.] With the abundant products of the fields.

V. 14, 2d member. Breaking in," of invading armies, "going forth,” into captivity, is most probably the meaning.

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, And the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages,

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And thy dominion is throughout all generations.
Jehovah upholds all the falling,

And raises up all that are bowed down.

15 The eyes of all wait for thee,

And thou givest them their food in its season ; 16 Opening thy hand,

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And satisfying the desire of every living thing.
Righteous is Jehovah in all his ways,

And kind in all his works.

18 Near is Jehovah to all that call upon him,
To all that call upon him in truth.

19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him;
Their cry he will hear, and will save them.
20 Jehovah preserves all that love him ;

And all the wicked he will destroy.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; And let all flesh bless his holy name,

Forever and ever.

1 PRAISE ye JAH.

PSALM CXLVI.

Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

2 I will praise Jehovah while I live ;

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I will sing praise to my God while I am in being.

Trust not in princes,

In a son of man, in whom there is no help.

4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.

5 Happy he, whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God;

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6 Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them;
Who keeps truth forever;
7 Doing justice to the oppressed,
Giving food to the hungry.
Jehovah sets free the bound;

8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind;
Jehovah raises the bowed down.
Jehovah loves the righteous.

9 Jehovah preserves the strangers;
The orphan and widow he relieves ;
And the way of the wicked he subverts.
10 Jehovah will reign forever,

Thy God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise ye JAH.

PSALM CXLVII.

1 PRAISE ye JAн.

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For it is good to sing praise to our God; For it is pleasant, praise is becoming.

Jehovah builds Jerusalem,

The outcasts of Israel he will gather; 3 The physician for the broken in heart, And he binds up their pains.

4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.

5 Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite.

6 Jehovah raises up the lowly;

He humbles the wicked even to the earth. *7 Answer Jehovah with thanksgiving, Sing praise to our God with the harp; 8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth ;

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9 Who makes the mountains put forth grass, Gives to the beast his food,

To the young ravens which cry.

He delights not in the strength of the horse, Nor has he pleasure in the legs of men.

11 Jehovah has pleasure in them that fear him, In them that hope in his mercy.

12. Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; Praise thy God, O Zion.

13 For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; He has blest thy sons within thee.

14 It is he that makes thy borders peace;

He satisfies thee with the marrow of the wheat. 15 He that sends his commandment to the earth; Swiftly does his word run.

16 He that gives snow like wool;

He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.

17 He that casts forth his ice like morsels; Who can stand before his cold?

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18 He sends out his word and melts them;
He causes his wind to blow, the waters flow.
He makes known his word to Jacob,
His statutes and his judgments to Israel.
20 He has not done so to any nation;
And his judgments, they know them not.
Praise ye JAH.

PSALM CXLVIII.

1 PRAISE ye JAH.

Praise Jehovah from the heavens;

Praise him in the heights.

V. 10, 1st and 2d members. Horse and foot are meant, the cavalry

and infantry of an army.

V. 14. Marrow of the wheat.] See the remark on Ps. 81: 16.