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thee: when I lift up my hands [ftrength. toward thy holy oracle.

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity: which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours give them after the work of their hands, render to them their defert.

5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he fhall deftroy them, and not build them up.

6 Bleffed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my fupplications.

7 The Lord is my ftrength, and my fhield, my heart trufted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my fong will I praise him.

8 The Lordistheirftrength, and he is the faving ftrength of his anointed.

9 Save thy people, and blefs thine inheritance: feed them alfo, and lift them up for ever.

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2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name ; worthip the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, the Lord is upon many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He maketh them alfo to skip like a calf: Lebanon, and Sirion like a young unicorn.

7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire:

8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness: the Lord fhaketh the wilderness. of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and difcovereth the forefts and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

10 The Lord fitteth upon the flood: yea, the Lord fitteth King for ever.

II The Lord will give ftrength unto his people, the Lord will bless his people with peace.

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PSALM XXX.

II Thou haft turned for me my mourning into danOcing: thou haft put off my fackcloth, and girded me with gladness:

WILL extol thee, Lord, for thou haft lifted me up, and haft not made my foes to rejoice over me.

2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou haft healed me.

3 O Lord, thou haft brought up my foul from the grave: thou haft kept me alive, that I fhould not go down to the pit.

4 Sing unto the Lord, O ye faints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6 And in my profperity I faid, I fhall never be moved. 7 Lord, by thy favour thou haft made my mountain to ftand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8 I cried to thee, O Lord: and unto the Lord I made fupplication.

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? fhall the duft praife thee? fhall it declare thy truth?

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

12 To the end that my glory may fing praife to thee, and not be filent: O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

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PSALM XXXI. N thee, O Lord, do I put my truft, let me never be afhamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2 Bow down thine ear to me, deliver me speedily: be thou my ftrong rock, for an house of defence to fave me.

3 For thou art my rock, and my fortrefs: therefore for thy name's fake lead me, and guide me.

4 Pull me out of the net, that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my ftrength.

5 Into thine hand I commit my fpirit: thou haft redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but Í truft in the Lord.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou haft confidered my trouble; thou haft known my foul in adver fities;

8 And haft not shut me up

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up into the hand of the enemy: thou haft fet my feet in a large room.

9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; mine eye is confumed with grief, yea, my foul and my belly.

10 For my life is fpent with grief, and my years with fighing my strength faileth becaufe of mine iniquity, and my bones are confumed.

II I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but efpecially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance they that did fee me without, fled from

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17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord, for I have cal led upon thee: let the wicked be afhamed, and let them be filent in the grave.

18 Let the lying lips be put to filence: which fpeak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous,

19 O how great is thy goodnefs, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee; which thou haft wrought for them that truft in thee, before the fons of men!

20 Thou fhalt hide them in the fecret of thy prefence from the pride of man: thou fhalt! keep them fecretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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21 Bleffed be the Lord: for he hath fhewed me his marvellous kindness in a ftrong city.

22 For I faid in my hafte, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardeft the voice of my fupplications, when I cried unto thee,

23 O love the Lord, all ye his faints: for the Lord preferveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and he fhall ftrengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

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PSALM XXXII.

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9 Be ye not as the horfe or as the mule, which have no understanding: whofe

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2 Bleffed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

3 When I kept filence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of fummer, Selah.

5 I acknowledged my fin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid: I faid, I will confefs my tranfgreffions un

bit and bridle, left they come near unto thee.

10 Many forrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trufteth in the Lord, mercy fhall compafs him about.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and fhout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

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to the Lord; and thou for-harp: fing unto him with the gaveft the iniquity of my fin. Selah.

6 For this fhall every one that is godly pray unto thee, in a time when thou mayeft be found furely in the floods of great waters they fhall not come nigh unto him.

Thou art my hidingplace, thou fhalt preferve me from trouble: thou fhalt compass me about with fongs of deliverance. Selah.

8 I will inftruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou fhalt go I will guide thee with mine eye.

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3 Sing unto him a new fong: play fkilfully with a loud noise.

4 For the word of the Lord is right: and all his works are done in truth.

5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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heap: he layeth up the depth | ftrength. in ftore-houses.

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world ftand in awe of him.

9 For he fpake, and it was done; he commanded, and it food faft.

10 The Lord bringeth the counfel of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

II The counfel of the Lord ftandeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

12 Bleffed is the nation whofe God is the Lord: and the people whom he hath chofen for his own inheritance,

13 The Lord looketh from heaven: he beholdeth all the fons of men.

14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

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16 There is no king faved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength,

17 An horse is a vain thing for fafety: neither fhall he deliver any by his great

18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is unto them that fear him: upon them that hope in his

mercy:

19 To deliver their foul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

20 Our foul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our fhield.

21 For our heart fhall re

joice in him becaufe we have trufted in his holy name.

22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee,

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WILL blefs the Lord at all times: his praise Jball continually be in my mouth.

2 My foul fhall make her boaft in the Lord: the humble fhall hear thereof, and be glad..

3 magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4 I fought the Lord, and -14 he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not afhamed.

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