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Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is proper for those who love your name.

I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word.

See my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.

I praise you seven times in the day for your righteous ordinances.

Great peace is for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling.

I hope for your salvation, O Yahweh, and do your commands.

I long for your salvation, O Yahweh, and your law is my delight.

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

A song for the ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come?

where the tribes go up, the tribes of Yah as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

For there the thrones sit for judgment, thrones of David's house.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be at ease.

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."

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

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of the arrogant.

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not made us prey for their teeth.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for these people."