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My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail or what time I am.

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I have here.

5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is alto- Heb. settled. gether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in Heb. un vain he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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'And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the "blow of thine hand. Heb. conflict. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to Heb. that which is to be desired consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

in him to melt away.

"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 130 spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

XL. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

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I waited.

I WAITED patiently for the LORD; and Heb. In waiting he inclined unto me, and heard * He brought my cry. me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the Heb. a pit miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my

of noise.

mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

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+ Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust; and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be or, none can order reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

them unto thee.

"Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin Heb. digged. offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

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of my bowels.

"I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

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"Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart *faileth me.

Heb. forsaketh.

13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 16 Let all

those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

"But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

XLI. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

poor:

Or, the weak, or, &'ck.

Heb. in the day of evil. alive;

BLESSED is he that considereth *the the LORD will deliver him *in time of trouble. 'The LORD will preserve him, and keep him and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and *thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of Or, do not thou his enemies. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all Heb. turn. his bed in his sickness.

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*I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? "And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, Heb. a thing of Belial. cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of hath "lifted up his heel against me.

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Heb. evil to me.

Heb. the man my bread,

of my peace.

Heb. magnified.

10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

"By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. 13 Blessed be the LORD

God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

XLII. To the chief Musician, *Maschil, for the sons of Korah. Or, A Psalm giving instruction of the sons, &c.

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As the hart "panteth after the water brooks, Heb. brayeth. so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

down.

5 Why art thou "cast down, O my soul? and Heb. bowed why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet "praise him for the help Or, give thanks, Or, his

of his countenance.

presence is salvation.

"O my God, my soul is cast down within me : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Or, the little Mizar.

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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a "sword in my bones, mine ene- Or, killing. mies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

'Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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deceit and iniquity.

. XLIII. JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause. against an ungodly nation: O deliver me or, unmerciful. * from the deceitful and unjust man. For Heb.from a man of thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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30 send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God "my exceeding joy: yea, upon the Heb. the gladness harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

of my joy.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

XLIV. To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

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WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. "How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Thou art my king, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Through thee will we push down our

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