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Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth Thine honour.

Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise.

Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God. Above all the earth Thine honour!

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

And man saith: `Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not,' by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

O my Strength, unto Thee I take heed, For God [is] my tower -- the God of my kindness.

God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.

Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

O my Strength, unto Thee I sing praise, For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!

To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult -- I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!

To the Overseer, on stringed instruments. -- By David. Hear, O God, my loud cry, attend to my prayer.

For Thou, O God, hast hearkened to my vows, Thou hast appointed the inheritance Of those fearing Thy name.

He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint -- they keep him.

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. Only -- toward God [is] my soul silent, From Him [is] my salvation.

Only -- for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him [is] my hope.