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PSALM XLVI.

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN.

A SONG OF THE SONS OF KORAH

CONCERNING MYSTERIES.

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GOD is our Refuge and Strength:

A very present

Help in trouble.

Therefore we fear not

In the changing of earth:
In the shaking of mountains

In the heart of the ocean.

Its waters roar, and are turbid :

The mountains quake with its swelling.

PAUSE.

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A River's streams rejoice

The city of God:

The holy place where the Highest resides.

God is within her: she shall not be moved :

God will help her at break of morning.

6 The heathen roar: the kingdoms are moved :

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He utters His voice: the earth dissolves.

Jehovah of Hosts is with us :

Our Refuge, the God of Jacob.

PAUSE.

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Come, see Jehovah's doings:

He makes desolations on earth:

He makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth:
He breaks the bow, and snaps the spear:

He burns the chariot with fire.

Desist and know that I am God.

I am exalted among the heathen :
I am exalted throughout the earth.
Jehovah of Hosts is with us:
Our Refuge, the God of Jacob.

STROPHE 4. 4.-12.

DIVISION 3. 4. 4. Including the title, 4.

PSALM XLVII.

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN.

A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.

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Shout

1 O ALL ye peoples, clap the hands:
ye to God with a voice of jubilee.
For Jehovah the Highest is terrible :
A great King o'er all the earth.

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God is gone up with a shout:

Jehovah with sound of a trumpet.
Sing a psalm to God, sing a psalm:

Sing a psalm to our King, sing a psalm.
For God is King of all the earth :

To the people of Abraham's God.

For the shields of earth are God's:
He is exalted greatly.

STROPHE DIVISION 4. 5. Including the title, 5. 5. =10.

PSALM XLVIII.

A SONG OF PRAISE.

A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.

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GREAT is Jehovah, and exceedingly glorious
In the City of our God, in His holy Mountain.
Beautiful in elevation,

The joy of the earth, is Mount Sion:

On the northern side is the Great King's City. 3 In her palaces God is known as a Refuge.

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For lo, the kings were assembled:

They vanish'd together.

Themselves beheld with astonishment :
Were confounded, and fled away.

Trembling took hold on them there :

And pain, as a travailing woman.

With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of

Tarshish.

Even as we have heard, we have seen :

In the City of Jehovah of Hosts,

In the City of our God:

God stablishes it for ever.

PAUSE.

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We muse on Thy loving-kindness,
O God, in the midst of Thy temple.
As Thy Name, is Thy praise, O God,

To the ends of the earth:

Thy right-hand is full of righteousness.
Mount Sion rejoices:

The daughters of Judah exult :

Because of Thy judgments.

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Walk about Sion, and go round about her :

Number her towers.

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Mark well her bulwarks: dissect her palaces:

To tell the next generation.

For this God is our God for ever and ever :

He will be our Guide until death.

STROPHE-DIVISION 3. 5. 3. 3.=14,

PSALM XLIX.

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN.

A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH.

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HEAR this, ye peoples, all of you;
Give ear, all that dwell in the world:

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Both common men and lords ;

Both rich and poor together.

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My mouth shall utter wisdom:

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My heart muse on understanding.
Mine ear will I incline to a parable:
On the harp will I open my riddle.

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Why fear I in days of calamity,
When th' iniquity of my supplanters
Environs me round about?

They trust in their wealth:

And boast their abundant riches.