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

Let my tongue sing about Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.

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

I long for Your salvation, LORD, And Your Law is my delight.

I have wandered about like a lost sheep; search for Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.

Woe to me, for I reside in Meshech, For I have settled among the tents of Kedar!

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

To which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD— An ordinance for Israel— To give thanks to the name of the LORD.

For thrones were set there 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 the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Be gracious to us, LORD, be gracious to us, For we have had much more than enough of contempt.

For the scepter of wickedness will not rest upon the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not extend their hands to do wrong.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with those who practice injustice. Peace be upon Israel.

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

The LORD has done great things for us; We are joyful.

It is futile for you to rise up early, To stay up late, To eat the bread of painful labor; This is how He gives to His beloved sleep.

When you eat the fruit of the labor of your hands, You will be happy and it will go well for you.

Behold, for so shall a man Who fears the LORD be blessed.