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Psalms 140; Psalms 141; Psalms 142; Psalms 143; Psalms 144; Psalms 145
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Psalms 140
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(139-1) <Unto the end, a psalm of David.> (139-2) Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
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(139-3) Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
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(139-4) They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.
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(139-5) Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:
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(139-6) The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.
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(139-7) I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
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(139-8) O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.
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(139-9) Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.
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(139-10) The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
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(139-11) Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
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(139-12) A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
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(139-13) I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
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(139-14) But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.
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Psalms 141
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(140-1) I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
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(140-2) Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
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(140-3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
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(140-4) Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.
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(140-5) The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
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(140-6) Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:
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(140-7) As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.
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(140-8) But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
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(140-9) Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
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(140-10) The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.
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Psalms 142
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(141-1) <Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave.> (141-2) I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.
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(141-3) In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:
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(141-4) When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.
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(141-5) I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.
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(141-6) I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.
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(141-7) Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
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(141-8) Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.
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Psalms 143
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(142-1) <A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him.> Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
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(142-2) And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
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(142-3) For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:
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(142-4) And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.
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(142-5) I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.
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(142-6) I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
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(142-7) Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
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(142-8) Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.
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(142-9) Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:
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(142-10) Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:
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(142-11) for thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble:
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(142-12) And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
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Psalms 144
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(143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
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(143-2) My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
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(143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
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(143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
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(143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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(143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
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(143-7) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
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(143-8) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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(143-9) To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
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(143-10) Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
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(143-11) Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
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(143-12) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
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(143-13) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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(143-14) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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(143-15) They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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Psalms 145
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(144-1) <Praise, for David himself.> I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
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(144-2) Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
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(144-3) Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.
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(144-4) Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.
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(144-5) They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.
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(144-6) And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness.
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(144-7) They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.
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(144-8) The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.
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(144-9) The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
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(144-10) Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.
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(144-11) They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power:
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(144-12) To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.
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(144-13) Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.
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(144-14) The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down.
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(144-15) The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season.
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(144-16) Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.
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(144-17) The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.
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(144-18) The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.
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(144-19) He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.
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(144-20) The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.
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(144-21) My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.
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