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