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              1 Alleluia.  My soul, praise thou the Lord;
            
            
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Praise the LORD.Praise the LORD, my soul.            
            
              2 I shall praise the Lord in my life (I shall praise the Lord all my life); I shall sing to my God as long as I shall be.
            
            
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I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.            
            
              3 Do not ye trust in princes; neither in the sons of men, in whom is no health. (Do not ye trust in princes, or in your leaders; nor in other people, in whom there is no help, or deliverance.)
            
            
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Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.            
            
              4 The spirit of him shall go out, and he shall turn again into his earth; in that day all the thoughts of them shall perish. (The breath of your prince, or of your leader, shall go out of him, and he shall return to the dust; and on that day all his thoughts shall perish.)
            
            
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When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.            
            
              5 He is blessed, of whom the God of Jacob is his helper; his hope is in his Lord God, (He is blessed, whom the God of Jacob is his helper; his hope is in the Lord his God,)
            
            
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Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.            
            
              6 that made heaven, and earth; the sea, and all things that be in those.  Which keepeth truth into the world, (who made heaven, and earth; and the sea, and all the creatures that be in them.  Who keepeth the truth safe forever,)
            
            
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He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever.            
            
              7 he maketh doom to them that suffer wrong; he giveth meat to them that be hungry.  The Lord unbindeth fettered men; (he maketh justice for those who suffer wrong; he giveth food to those who be hungry. The Lord unbindeth the fettered;)
            
            
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He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free,            
            
              8 the Lord lighteneth blind men.  The Lord raiseth men hurtled down; the Lord loveth just men. (the Lord giveth light to the blind/the Lord giveth sight to the blind.  The Lord raiseth up those who be hurtled down; the Lord loveth the righteous.)
            
            
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the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.            
            
              9 The Lord keepeth comelings; he shall take up a motherless child, and a widow; and he shall destroy the ways of sinners. (The Lord keepeth newcomers, or strangers, safe/The Lord keepeth watch over newcomers, or strangers; he taketh up the causes of a motherless child, and of a widow; but he destroyeth the ways of the sinners.)
            
            
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The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.            
            
              10 The Lord shall reign into the worlds; Zion, thy God shall reign in generation and into generation. (The Lord shall reign forever; Zion, thy God shall reign for all generations/thy God shall reign in all generations.)
            
            
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The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD.            
          
            
              Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble.  For personal use only.
            
            
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