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Salvation is far from the wicked,For they do not seek Your statutes.

I hope for Your salvation, O Yahweh,And I do Your commandments.

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,For all my ways are before You.

Let my lips pour forth praise,For You teach me Your statutes.

Let my tongue answer with Your word,For all Your commandments are righteous.

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

I long for Your salvation, O Yahweh,And Your law is my delight.

I have wandered off like a lost sheep; search for Your slave,For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech,For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

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

To which the tribes, the tribes of Yah, go up—A testimony for Israel—To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

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

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:"May they prosper who love you.

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,I will now say, "May 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 we are greatly saturated with contempt.

Blessed be Yahweh,Who has not given us to be prey for their teeth.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous,So that the righteous would not send forth their hands in unrighteousness.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.Peace be upon Israel.

Then our mouth was filled with laughterAnd our tongue with shouts of joy;Then they said among the nations,"Yahweh has done great things for them."