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Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, and hast not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause.

For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: thou has set upon his head a crown of precious stone.

His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them.

For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.

And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name’s sake.

Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?

He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

The meek will he guide in judgment: the meek will he teach his ways.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek his covenant and his testimonies.

His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

The Lord is the strength of them that fear him; and his covenant is to manifest truth to them.

Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple.

For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord.

Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, thou shalt pull them down, and shalt not build them up.

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.