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They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.

Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

[He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.

[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.

Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet.

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

[As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.