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Within her citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah]

We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Thy right hand is filled with victory;

that this is God, our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide for ever.

Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. [Selah]

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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

Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]

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

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?

"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!

He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.

The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.