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For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not acted wickedly against my God.

For all His judgments were before me. As to His statutes, I did not turn away from them.

For You are my lamp, O Jehovah; and Jehovah shall light up my darkness.

For by You I have run through a troop; by my God I have leaped over a wall.

As for God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is tested; He is a shield to all those who seek refuge in Him.

For who is God except Jehovah? And who is a rock except our God?

teaching my hands for battle, so that my hands may bend a bow of bronze.

Yea, You girded me with might for battle; You caused those rising against me to bow under me.

He is God who is giving vengeance for me, and brings down peoples under me,

For is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

As to the ungodly, all of them shall be as a thorn driven away; for they cannot be taken by the hand;

And after he had numbered the people, the heart of David struck him. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. And now, O Jehovah, I pray, take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.

Go and you shall speak to David, So says Jehovah, I am setting up three things for you; you choose one of them and I will do it for you.

And David said, Because of this it is great distressing to me. Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for many are His mercies; and do not let me fall into the hand of man.

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his eyes. Behold, the oxen for a burnt offering, and the threshing instruments, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.

And the king said to Araunah, No, for buying I will buy from you for a price, and I will not offer to Jehovah my God burnt offerings for nothing. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And David built an altar there to Jehovah, and offered burnt offering and peace offerings. And Jehovah was entreated for the land; and the plague was stayed from Israel.

And King David was old, going into days. And they covered him with garments, for he had no heat.

And his servants said to him, Let them seek out a young woman for my lord the king, a virgin, and she shall stand before the king, and be a nurse to him, and lie in your bosom, and my lord the king shall have heat.

And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will reign. And he prepared a chariot for himself, and horsemen, and fifty men running before his face.