| 1:And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song
in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: |
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| 2: And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer; |
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The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and
the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou
savest me from violence. |
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| 4: I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall
I be saved from mine enemies. |
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| 5: When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid; |
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| 6: The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death
prevented me; |
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:In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God:
and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into
his ears. |
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| 8: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth. |
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| 9: 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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| 10: He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was
under his feet. |
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| 11: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon
the wings of the wind. |
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| 12: And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and thick clouds of the skies. |
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| 13: Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
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| 14: The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
voice. |
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| 15: And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them. |
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| 16: And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the
world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the
breath of his nostrils. |
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| 17: He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many
waters; |
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| 18: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that
hated me: for they were too strong for me. |
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| 19: They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay. |
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| 20: He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me,
because he delighted in me. |
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| 21: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. |
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| 22: For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God. |
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| 23: For all his judgments were before me: and as for his
statutes, I did not depart from them. |
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| 24: I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
iniquity. |
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| 25: Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. |
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| 26: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with
the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. |
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| 27: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. |
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| 28: And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are
upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. |
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| 29: For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
darkness. |
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| 30: For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I
leaped over a wall. |
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| 31: As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is
tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. |
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| 32: For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our
God? |
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| 33: God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
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| 34: He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my
high places. |
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| 35: He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms. |
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| 36: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great. |
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| 37: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not
slip. |
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| 38: I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned
not again until I had consumed them. |
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| 39: And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could
not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. |
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| 40: For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that
rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. |
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| 41: Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I
might destroy them that hate me. |
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| 42: They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD,
but he answered them not. |
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| 43: Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did
stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. |
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| 44: Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,
thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not
shall serve me. |
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| 45: Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
hear, they shall be obedient unto me. |
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| 46: Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of
their close places. |
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| 47: The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the
God of the rock of my salvation. |
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| 48: It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people
under me, |
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| 49: And that ingeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast
lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man. |
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| 50: Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. |
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| 51: He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy
to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. |
| 1:Now these be the last words of David. David the son of
Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, |
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| 2: The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue. |
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The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He
that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. |
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| 4: And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun
riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out
of the earth by clear shining after rain. |
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| 5: Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me
an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is
all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
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| 6: But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust
away, because they cannot be taken with hands: |
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:But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and
the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the
same place. |
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| 8: These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was
Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he
slew at one time. |
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| 9: And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of
the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that
were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone
away: |
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| 10: He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,
and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory
that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. |
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| 11: And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And
the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece
of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
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| 12: But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory. |
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| 13: And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. |
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| 14: And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem. |
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| 15: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink
of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! |
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| 16: And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by
the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would
not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. |
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| 17: And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do
this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their
lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three
mighty men. |
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| 18: And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was
chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and
slew them, and had the name among three. |
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| 19: Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their
captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. |
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| 20: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of
Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he
went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
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| 21: And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a
spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the
spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
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| 22: These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the
name among three mighty men. |
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| 23: He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not
to the first three. And David set him over his guard. |
| 1:And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
with one accord in one place. |
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| 2: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. |
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And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it
sat upon each of them. |
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| 4: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. |
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| 5: And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every
nation under heaven. |
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| 6: Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were
confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. |
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And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold,
are not all these which speak Galilaeans? |
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| 8: And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
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| 9: Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia,
and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, |
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| 10: Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about
Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, |
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| 11: Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God. |
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| 12: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another,
What meaneth this? |
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| 13: Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
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| 14: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said
unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known
unto you, and hearken to my words: |
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| 15: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third
hour of the day. |
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| 16: But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
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| 17: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream
dreams: |
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| 18: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those
days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: |
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| 19: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: |
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| 20: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before that great and notable day of the Lord come: |
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| 21: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
the Lord shall be saved. |
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| 22: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved
of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the
midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: |
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| 23: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: |
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| 24: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it
was not possible that he should be holden of it. |
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| 25: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: |
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| 26: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also
my flesh shall rest in hope: |
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| 27: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption. |
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| 28: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full
of joy with thy countenance. |
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| 29: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch
David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this
day. |
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| 30: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an
oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would
raise up Christ to sit on his throne; |
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| 31: He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his
soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. |
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| 32: This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
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| 33: Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received
of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye
now see and hear. |
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| 34: For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The
LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, |
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| 35: Until I make thy foes thy footstool. |
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| 36: Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. |
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| 37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said
unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
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| 38: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost. |
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| 39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. |
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| 40: And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save
yourselves from this untoward generation. |
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| 41: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same
day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. |
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| 42: And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and
fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. |
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| 43: And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and
signs were done by the apostles. |
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| 44: And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
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| 45: And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as
every man had need. |
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| 46: And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and
breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and
singleness of heart, |
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| 47: Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord
added to the church daily such as should be saved. |
