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not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

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that were before us

O remember not against us *former Or, the iniquities of them iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy Heb. vengeance. servants which is shed.

Heb. reserve the

"Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power Heb. thine arm. *preserve thou those that are appointed to children of death. die; "and render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

Heb. to generation and generation.

LXXX. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth,

A Psalm of Asaph.

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Or, for Asaph.

GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and "come and save us.

Heb. come for salvation to us.

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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smoke.

Thou

* O LORD God of hosts, how long "wilt thou Heb, wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them

tears to drink in great measure. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh among themselves.

'Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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* Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root,. and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like *the goodly cedars." She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

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Heb. the cedars of God.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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"Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

LXXXI. To the chief Musician upon Gittith,

A Psalm of Asaph.

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Or, for Asaph.

SING aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the

psaltery.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

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For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land or, against. of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. "I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Heb. passed

away.

'Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of *Meribah. Selah.

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Or, strife.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 'there shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they or, to the hardness of their

walked in their own counsels.

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hearts, or, imaginations.

"O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: Or, yielded feigned obedience. Heb. lied. but their time should have endured for 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of Heb. with the the wheat and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

LXXXII. A Psalm of Asaph.

ever.

fat of wheat.

Or, for Asaph.

GOD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

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How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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3* Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice Heb. Judge. to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

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Heb. moved.

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men,

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and fall like one of the princes.

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Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

LXXXIII. A Song or Psalm *of Asaph.

Or, for Asaph.

KEEP not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confede- Heb. heart. rate against thee: the tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: *they have holpen the children of Lot. Heb. they have been an arm Selah.

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to the children of Lot.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: "which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. "Make

their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: "who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; isso persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

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LXXXIV. To the chief Musician upon Gittith,

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A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
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Or, of.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! * My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a make him a well, &c. well; the rain also filleth the pools. They Heb. covereth. go *from strength to strength, every one of or, from company them in Zion appeareth before God.

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to company.

O LORD God

of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.

Selah.

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