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When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the heathen in our sight.

Turn us again, O God; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Turn us again, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved;

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of God; he judgeth among the gods.