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Let the congregation of the peoples circle thee about; and for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of wrath; he pointed his arrows against the persecutor.

For thy heavens have seen the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast clothed him with glory and honor.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne, O thou righteous judge.

Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles and thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

My enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished.

But the LORD shall endure for ever; he has prepared his throne for judgment.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the poor, a refuge in times of trouble.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O LORD.

For he has remembered to avenge their blood; he forgets not the cry of the poor.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.

For the ungodly boasts of his own desire, and the LORD is angry when the wicked is blessed.

His ways are always weak; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he despises them.

He says in his heart, I shall not be moved from generation to generation; for he conceives evil.

Thou hast seen it; for there is mischief and wrath, for thou beholdest that he hath surrendered himself unto thy hands; and the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

The LORD is King for ever and ever; the Gentiles are perished out of his land.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

For if they have destroyed the foundations which the LORD has prepared, what can the righteous do?