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None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For he will receive me. Selah.

<> The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, And calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, For God himself is judge. Selah.

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,

"Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

< > Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

< > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, Because God has rejected them.