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1 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.
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On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; he sets up victory like walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.
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Open the gates, so that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.
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Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace— in peace because they trust in you.
4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.
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Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an everlasting rock.
5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.
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For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height; the lofty city he lays low. He lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
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The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.
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The way of the righteous is level; O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.
8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.
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In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and your renown are the soul's desire.
9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
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My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.
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If favor is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness they deal perversely and do not see the majesty of the Lord.
11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.
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O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.
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O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.
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O Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but we acknowledge your name alone.
14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.
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The dead do not live; shades do not rise— because you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.
15 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.
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But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
16 Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.
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O Lord, in distress they sought you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
17 As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.
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Like a woman with child, who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near her time, so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.
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we were with child, we writhed, but we gave birth only to wind. We have won no victories on earth, and no one is born to inhabit the world.
19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.
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Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.
20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.
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Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.
21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.
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For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no longer cover its slain.
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