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Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.

He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.

They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forevermore.

He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.

O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.

You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and shield.

He will bless those who fear the LORD—small and great alike.

May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.

May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.

I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.

I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

For great is His loving devotion toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Hallelujah!

In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.

In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!

I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.

I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.

This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.

Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.

I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.

You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.

Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.

You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.

I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.