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Psalm 138
Of David.
1I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;before the “gods” I will sing your praise. 2I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. 3When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted. 4May all the kings of the earth praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth. 5May they sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great. 6Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar. 7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes, with your right hand you save me. 8The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands. Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1O LORD, you have searched meand you know me. 2You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths,Hebrew Sheol you are there. 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17How precious toOr concerning me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. 19If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 140
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men;protect me from men of violence, 2who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day. 3They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah 4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet. 5Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. Selah 6O LORD, I say to you, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy. 7O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, who shields my head in the day of battle— 8do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah 9Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused. 10Let burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise. 11Let slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down men of violence. 12I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy. 13Surely the righteous will praise your name
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