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Psalms 86:1-17
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
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Psalms 7:1-17
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me( yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
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Psalms 90:1-17
Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.You turn man to destruction, saying,“ Return, you children of men.”For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
