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Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:

O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs and melody, even with my glory.

Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.

Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.

God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.

You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.

Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,