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1 I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works.
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1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.
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2 I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.
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2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
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3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
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3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
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4 For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
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4 For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
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5 You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.
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5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
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6 You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.
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6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
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7 But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
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7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
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8 And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
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8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
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9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;
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9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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10 And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
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10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
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11 Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
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11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.
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12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
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12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
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13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
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13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
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14 So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
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14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.
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15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
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15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
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16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
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16 The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. "Higgaion." "Selah"
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17 The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
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17 The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.
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18 For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.
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18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.
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19 Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.
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19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
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20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
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20 Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. "Selah"
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