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Psalms 86:1-17
Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; For I am poor and needy.Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; Save Your servant who trusts in You!Be merciful to me, O Lord, For I cry to You all day long.Rejoice the soul of Your servant, For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; And attend to the voice of my supplications.In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; Nor are there any works like Your works.All nations whom You have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your name.For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore.For great is Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.O God, the proud have risen against me, And a mob of violent men have sought my life, And have not set You before them.But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your maidservant.Show me a sign for good, That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
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Psalms 7:1-17
O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me,Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.O Lord my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands,If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me; Yes, let him trample my life to the earth, And lay my honor in the dust. SelahArise, O Lord, in Your anger; Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; Rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded!So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You; For their sakes, therefore, return on high.The Lord shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me.Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just; For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.My defense is of God, Who saves the upright in heart.God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
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Psalms 90:1-17
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.You turn man to destruction, And say,“ Return, O children of men.”For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:In the morning it flourishes and grows up; In the evening it is cut down and withers.For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants.Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children.And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.
