LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. 170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

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"My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. 7 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. 173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts. I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

CXX. A Song of degrees.

IN my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard

me.

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Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall or, what shall the

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deceitful tongue give

unto thee? or, what

shall it profit thee? Heb. added.

be given unto thee? or what shall be *done unto thee, thou false tongue? **Sharp or, It is as the arrows of the mighty, with coals juniper.

of

sharp arrows of

the mighty man, with coals of juniper.

5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: of peace. but when I speak, they are for war.

CXXI. A Song of degrees.

Or, a man

*I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, Or, Shall I lift up from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made

mine eyes to the hills? whence should my help come?

heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that

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keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper; the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

CXXII. A Song of degrees of David.

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I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. 5 For there are set Heb. do sit. thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

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"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. 'Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

CXXIII. A Song of degrees.

UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

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Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

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Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us:

Our

for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

CXXIV. A Song of degrees of David.

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IF it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

"Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

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CXXV. A Song of degrees.

THEY that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3 For the rod of the wicked Heb. wickedshall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

ness.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

CXXVI. A Song of degrees.

Heb. returned the

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WHEN the LORD turned again the cap- returning of Zion. tivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD "hath done great things for them. Heb. hath magnified 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

to do with them.

*Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

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Or, seed

5 They that sow in tears shall reap in "joy. Or, singing. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing pre- busket. cious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

*

CXXVII. A Song of degrees for Solomon.

Or, of Solomon.

of it in it.

EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep Heb. that are builders * the city, the watchman waketh but in vain *It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved' sleep.

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Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his Heb. hath filled his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the Or, shall subdue, gate.

CXXVIII. A Song of degrees.

quiver with them.

or, destroy.

BLESSED is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

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For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

*Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. "Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

CXXIX. A Song of degrees.

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*MANY a time have they afflicted me from my or, Much. youth, may Israel now say: many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

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The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

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5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

CXXX. A Song of degrees.

OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

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*Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?