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To thee, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest thou be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself so as to do evil.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.

As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for thee, O God.

They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.

As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.

According to thy name, O God, so is also thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.

And for their cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: they shall fall by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause.

So will I sing to thy name for ever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike formed out of vanity.

As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God.

Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.

And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it.

until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.

So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.

So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.