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1 I will thank you, LORD, with all my heart; I will talk about all your wonderful acts.
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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 celebrate and rejoice in you; I will sing praises to your name, 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 and retreat, they fall down and die right in front of you
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3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
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4 because you have established justice for me and my claim, because you rule from the throne, establishing justice rightly.
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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've denounced the nations, destroyed the wicked. You've erased their names for all time.
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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 Every enemy is wiped out, like something ruined forever. You've torn down their cities— even the memory of them is dead.
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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 rules forever! He assumes his throne for the sake of justice.
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7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
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8 He will establish justice in the world rightly; he will judge all people fairly.
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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 is a safe place for the oppressed— a safe place in difficult times.
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9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
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10 Those who know your name trust you because you have not abandoned any who seek you, LORD.
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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 lives in Zion! Proclaim his mighty acts among all 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 Because the one who avenges bloodshed remembers those who suffer; the LORD hasn't forgotten their cries for help.
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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, LORD! Just look how I suffer because of those who hate me. But you are the one who brings me back from the very 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 so I can declare all your praises, so I can rejoice in your salvation in the gates of Daughter Zion.
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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 fallen into the hole they themselves made! Their feet are caught in the very net they themselves hid!
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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 is famous for the justice he has done; it's his own doing that the wicked are trapped. Higgayon. 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 Let the wicked go straight to the grave, the same for every nation that forgets God.
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17 The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.
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18 Because the poor won't be forgotten forever, the hope of those who suffer won't be lost for all time.
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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 Get up, LORD! Don't let people 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 Strike them with fear, LORD. Let the nations know they are only human. 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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