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So will I bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

So they will be caused to stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence]. You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.

Draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies [so that they do not delight in my distress].

Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him; And let them pray for him continually; Let them bless and praise him all day long.

You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

"Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out And the streams overflowed; Can He give bread also? Or will He provide meat for His people?"

So they ate and were well filled, He gave them what they craved.

And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

He led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea engulfed their enemies.

So He brought them to His holy land, To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.

So that He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, The tent in which He had dwelled among men,

So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; And guided them with his skillful hands.

So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, Will give You thanks forever; We will declare and publish Your praise from generation to generation.

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges, So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

"So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.