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Then he led out his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he brought them to his holy hill, to the mountain that his right hand had won.

Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,

He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,

and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

He gave his people to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.

He put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting disgrace.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

He chose his servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds;

from tending the nursing ewes he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel, his inheritance.

For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.

Righteousness will go before him, and will make a path for his steps.

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted.

I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure.

If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,