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Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Surely God will ransom my life from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah

because when he dies he will not take away any of it. His wealth will not follow down after him.

And the heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah

because every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

If I were hungry I would not tell you, because the world and its fullness are mine.

I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done, and I will wait on your name, because it is good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

There they are very fearful where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Yahweh, because it is good.

Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies.

because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.

Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.

Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and heart.

He safely redeems my life from the battle against me, because those standing against me are among many.

God will hear and answer them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.

For the music director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant Lands. Of David. A miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.

My enemies trample all day, because many are attacking me proudly.

Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

Then my enemies will turn back when I call. This I know because God is for me.

because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?