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For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers, Or a skillful caster of spells.

So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may pay my vows day by day.

So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake the head.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.

May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually.

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him; And let them pray for him continually; Let them bless him all day long.

You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

"Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, And streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?"

So they ate and were well filled, And their desire He gave to them.

So He brought their days to an end in futility And their years in sudden terror.

He led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea engulfed their enemies.

So He brought them to His holy land, To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, The tent which He had pitched among men,

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them with his skillful hands.

So we Your people and the sheep of Your pasture Will give thanks to You forever; To all generations we will tell of Your praise.

Why have You broken down its hedges, So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

"So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices.