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So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

so that you may bathe your feet in blood, so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe."

When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.

Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to all the generations to come. Your power

You keep my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?

so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out and torrents overflowed, can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane.

Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek your name, O Lord .