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1 I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart ; I will tell of all Your wonders.
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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 exult in You; I will sing 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 enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
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3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
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4 For You have maintained my just cause ; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
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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 rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked ; You have blotted out their name forever 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 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins, And You have uprooted the cities ; The very memory of them has perished.
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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 abides forever ; He has established His throne for judgment,
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7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
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8 And He will judge the world in righteousness ; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.
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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 also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold 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 know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek 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 Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion ; Declare among the peoples His deeds.
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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 For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
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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 Be gracious to me, O LORD ; See my affliction from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates 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 That I may tell of all Your praises, That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in 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 sunk down in the pit which they have made ; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
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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 made Himself known ; He has executed judgment. In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. 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 wicked will return to Sheol, Even all the nations who forget God.
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17 The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.
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18 For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
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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 Arise, O LORD, do not let man prevail ; 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 ; Let the nations know that they are but 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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