Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<A Ma`alot Song.>> Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Tziyon, Which can't be moved, but remains forever.
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Those who trust in God are like Zion Mountain: Nothing can move it, a rock-solid mountain you can always depend on.
2 As the mountains surround Yerushalayim, So the LORD surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
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Mountains encircle Jerusalem, and God encircles his people - always has and always will.
3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won't put forth their hands to iniquity.
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The fist of the wicked will never violate What is due the righteous, provoking wrongful violence.
4 Do good, LORD, to those who are good, To those who are upright in their hearts.
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Be good to your good people, God, to those whose hearts are right!
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Shalom be on Yisra'el.
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God will round up the backsliders, corral them with the incorrigibles. Peace over Israel!
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