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RESH. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and performed thy commandments.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways [are] before thee.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.

Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

I [am] for peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.

The LORD will preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever.

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace [be] within thee.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

[As] the mountains [are] round Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] around his people from henceforth even for ever.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.