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For Your lovingkindness is great and higher than the heavens; Your truth reaches to the skies.

Give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

With God we will do valiantly, For it is He who will trample down our enemies.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

In return for my love, they attack me, But I am in prayer.

They have repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

When he enters into dispute, let wickedness come about. Let his prayer [for help] result [only] in sin.

But You, O GOD, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name's sake; Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;

For I am suffering and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

For He will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who judge his soul.

The LORD (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son), "Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission]."

Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).

But as for us, we will bless and affectionately and gratefully praise the LORD From this time forth and forever. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

For You have rescued my life from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from stumbling and falling.

What will I give to the LORD [in return] For all His benefits toward me? [How can I repay Him for His precious blessings?]

For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him], And the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness endures forever.

I will give thanks to You, for You have heard and answered me; And You have become my salvation [my Rescuer, my Savior].

O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness endures forever.