| 1: I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. |
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| 2: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my
salvation, and my high tower. |
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I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so
shall I be saved from mine enemies. |
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| 4: The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid. |
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| 5: The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
prevented me. |
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| 6: In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even
into his ears. |
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| 7: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. |
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| 8: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. |
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| 9: He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was
under his feet. |
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| 10: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
the wings of the wind. |
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| 11: He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about
him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. |
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| 12: At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds
passed, hail stones and coals of fire. |
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| 13: The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. |
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| 14: Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
out lightnings, and discomfited them. |
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| 15: Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the
breath of thy nostrils. |
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| 16: He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters. |
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| 17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which
hated me: for they were too strong for me. |
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| 18: They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay. |
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| 19: He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
because he delighted in me. |
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| 20: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. |
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| 21: For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God. |
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| 22: For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away
his statutes from me. |
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| 23: I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
iniquity. |
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| 24: Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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| 25: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; |
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| 26: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. |
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| 27: For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
high looks. |
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| 28: For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
my darkness. |
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| 29: For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
leaped over a wall. |
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| 30: As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is
tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. |
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| 31: For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
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| 32: It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
perfect. |
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| 33: He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my
high places. |
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| 34: He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms. |
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| 35: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
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| 36: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not
slip. |
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| 37: I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did
I turn again till they were consumed. |
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| 38: I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
fallen under my feet. |
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| 39: For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. |
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| 40: Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I
might destroy them that hate me. |
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| 41: They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the
LORD, but he answered them not. |
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| 42: Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
cast them out as the dirt in the streets. |
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| 43: Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and
thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not
known shall serve me. |
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| 44: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
shall submit themselves unto me. |
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| 45: The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their
close places. |
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| 46: The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of
my salvation be exalted. |
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| 47: It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
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| 48: He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the
violent man. |
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| 49: Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. |
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| 50: Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. |
