| 1: In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah;
We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and
bulwarks. |
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| 2: Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the
truth may enter in. |
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| 3:
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
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| 4: Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is
everlasting strength: |
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| 5: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city,
he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it
even to the dust. |
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| 6: The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and
the steps of the needy. |
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| 7: The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost
weigh the path of the just. |
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| 8: Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for
thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of
thee. |
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| 9: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in
the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. |
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| 10: Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and
will not behold the majesty of the LORD. |
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| 11: LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they
shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of
thine enemies shall devour them. |
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| 12: LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us. |
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| 13: O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion
over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. |
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| 14: They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made
all their memory to perish. |
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| 15: Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased
the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the
ends of the earth. |
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| 16: LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a
prayer when thy chastening was upon them. |
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| 17: Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in
thy sight, O LORD. |
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| 18: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it
were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. |
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| 19: Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. |
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| 20: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the
indignation be overpast. |
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| 21: For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. |
