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The LORD will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, And he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the eretz, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, And restore him from his bed of illness.

My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

If he come to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate bread with me, Has lifted up his heel against me.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

The LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, and the eretz melted.

God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

<> Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him.

But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased.

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul -- And men praise you when you do well for yourself --