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Let your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen your precepts.

I have longed for your yeshu`ah, LORD. Your law is my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your mitzvot.

I am for shalom, But when I speak, they are for war.

Where the tribes go up, even the LORD's tribes, According to an ordinance for Yisra'el, To give thanks to the name of the LORD.

For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of David's house.

Pray for the shalom of Yerushalayim. They will prosper who love you.

For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Shalom be within you."

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.

For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won't put forth their hands to iniquity.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Shalom be on Yisra'el.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then said they among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

The LORD has done great things for us, And we are glad.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, Will assuredly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To stay up late, Eating the bread of toil; For he gives sleep to his loved ones.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.

Yisra'el, hope in the LORD, For with the LORD there is lovingkindness. With him is abundant redemption.