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In my distress I called on Jehovah, and I called to my God. And He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry was in His ears.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not acted wickedly against my God.

For by You I have run through a troop; by my God I have leaped over a wall.

As for God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is tested; He is a shield to all those who seek refuge in Him.

For who is God except Jehovah? And who is a rock except our God?

God is my strong fortress; and He sets the blameless free in his way,

Jehovah lives! And blessed is the Rock, and exalted be the God, the Rock of my salvation.

He is God who is giving vengeance for me, and brings down peoples under me,

And these are the last words of David, the saying of David the son of Jesse, and the saying of the man raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel:

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me: One ruling over man righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

For is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?

And Joab said to the king, Yea, may Jehovah your God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold. And may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

O king, all these Araunah gives to the king. And Araunah said to the king, May Jehovah your God accept you.

And the king said to Araunah, No, for buying I will buy from you for a price, and I will not offer to Jehovah my God burnt offerings for nothing. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And she said to him, My lord, you have sworn to your handmaid by Jehovah your God, saying , Surely your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

surely as I swore to you by Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Surely your son Solomon shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; surely so I will do this day.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, Amen! So says Jehovah the God of my lord the king.

And also the king's servants have come in to bless our lord, King David, saying, Your God shall make the name of Solomon better than your name, and his throne greater than your throne. And the king bowed himself on the bed.

And also the king has said, Blessed is Jehovah the God of Israel who has today given one sitting on my throne, and my eyes seeing it.

and keep the charge of Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may do wisely all that you do, and there wherever you may turn,