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With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
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Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
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Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
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Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.
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God has spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That power belongs to God.
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Also to you, Lord, belongs lovingkindness, For you reward every man according to his work.
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, [A Psalm] of David. Concerning "Jeduthun," See Gill on "Ps 39:1," title. Kimchi thinks this psalm was written concerning the captivity; and Jarchi twtdh le, concerning the decrees and judgments made against Israel by their enemies; and so some of their ancient expositions {d}; but it seems to have been composed by David when in distress, either through Saul and his courtiers, or by reason of the conspiracy of Absalom. Theodoret takes it to be a prophecy of the persecution of Antiochus in the times of the Maccabees.