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| I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with my
whole heart; *
I will tell of all your marvelous works.
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| 2
| I will be glad and rejoice in you; *
I will sing to your Name, O Most High.
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| 3
| When my enemies are driven back, *
they will stumble and perish at your presence.
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| 4
| For you have maintained my right and my cause;
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you sit upon your throne judging right.
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| 5
| You have rebuked the ungodly and destroyed
the wicked; *
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
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| 6
| As for the enemy, they are finished, in perpetual
ruin, *
their cities plowed under, the memory of them perished;
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| 7
| But the LORD is enthroned for ever; *
he has set up this throne for judgment.
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| 8
| It is he who rules the world with righteousness;
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he judges the peoples with equity.
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| 9
| The LORD will be a refuge for the oppressed,
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a refuge in time of trouble.
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| 10
| Those who know your Name will put their trust
in you, *
for you never forsake those who seek you, O LORD.
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| 11
| Sing praise to the LORD who dwells in Zion;
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proclaim to the peoples the things he has done.
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| 12
| The Avenger of blood will remember them;
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he will not forget the cry of the afflicted.
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| 13
| Have pity on me, O LORD; *
see the misery I suffer from those who hate me,
O you who lift me up from the gate of death;
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| 14
| So that I may tell of all your praises
and rejoice in your salvation *
in the gates of the city of Zion.
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| 15
| The ungodly have fallen into the pit they
dug, *
and in the snare they set is their own foot caught.
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| 16
| The LORD is known by his acts of justice;
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the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands.
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| 17
| The wicked shall be given over to the grave,
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and also all the people that forget God.
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| 18
| For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
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and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.
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| 19
| Rise up, O LORD, let not the ungodly have
the upper hand; *
let them be judged before you.
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| 20
| Put fear upon them, O LORD; *
let the ungodly know they are but mortal.
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