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Thou hast proved my heart :

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Thou hast search'd it at night :

Thou hast tried me, and found no hypocrisy ;

My mouth oversteps not my thoughts.

As for the doings of man,

By the word of Thy lips

I, even I, have observed

The paths of the transgressor.

My steps hold fast by Thy tracks:

My feet, they do not slide.

II.

I, I, do call on Thee:

For Thou wilt hear me, O God.

Incline Thine ear to me:

And hear my speech.

Vouchsafe Thy special mercies:

O Thou who dost save by Thy right-hand

The confiding from the revolters.

Preserve me as

The apple of the eye :—

Hide me beneath

The shade of Thy wings :—

From the wicked who waste me;

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My deadly foes who beset me.

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They are wholly encased in fat :

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With their mouth they speak contemptuously.

Even now they surround our steps:

They direct their eyes

To turn aside in the land.

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His likeness is to a lion

Eager to tear in pieces :
And to a lion's cub

That lurks in secret places.

III.

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Arise, Jehovah; confront him ;

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Make him sink on his knees.

Deliver my soul

By Thy sword from the wicked:

By Thy hand, Jehovah, from mortals-
From mortals of continuance.

A prosperous life is their portion :

And with Thy dainties

Thou fillest their belly.

They abound with children :

And leave to their babes their residue.

As for me, in righteousness

I shall behold Thy Presence:

I shall be satisfied

At the waking up of Thy likeness.

STROPHE

DIVISION 5. 7. 3.=12. 3.

PSALM XVIII.

TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN.

1 A Psalm of David, Jehovah's servant, Who spake to Jehovah the words of this song, In the day Jehovah delivered him

From the fist of all his enemies,

And from the hand of Saul.

And he said,

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Intensely I love Thee, Jehovah my Strength.

My Cliff is Jehovah,

My Fortress and my Deliverer.

My God is my Rock, in whom I trust;

My Shield, my Height,

And the Horn of my Salvation.

I call on Jehovah, who is to be praised:

And as often am saved from mine enemies.

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He hears my voice from His temple :
And my cry comes up before Him,
It enters into His ears.

Then the earth did quake and shake:
And the hills' foundations trembled,
And quaked, for His wrath was hot.
A smoke went up through His nostrils :
And fire from His mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled from it.

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And He bowed the heavens, and descended :
And darkness was under His feet.

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And He rode on a Cherub, and flew :'

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Yea, He soar'd on the wings of the hurricane.

He shrouded Himself in darkness:

Thick thunder-clouds-dark waters

Were His pavilion round Him.

From the brightness before Him

The clouds disappear'd:

Hailstones and coals of fire!

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And Jehovah thundered in heaven :

And the Highest utter'd His voice

Hailstones and coals of fire.

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And He sent out His arrows and scatter'd them:

And shot forth lightnings, and routed them.

Then the brooks of waters were seen :

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And the world's foundations discovered :
At Thy rebuke, Jehovah ;

At the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.

He sends from above: He takes me :
He draws me from many waters.

He delivers me from my strong enemy,
And from my haters,

When they were mightier than I.

In the day of my woe they prevented me :
But Jehovah became my stay.

And He set me at large: He deliver'd me :
Because He delighted in me.

III.

Jehovah rewards me

According to my righteousness:
According to the cleanness

Of my hands He requites me.
Because I have kept
Jehovah's ways,

And have not recklessly
Revolted from my God.

But all His judgments
Have been before me :
And I have not put

His statutes from me.

I also was perfect towards Him

And kept myself

From mine iniquity.

Therefore Jehovah rewards me
According to my righteousness:
According to the cleanness

Of my hands in His eye-sight,

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