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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
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Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
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All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
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The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
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I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
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I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
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When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
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For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
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O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
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And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
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The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
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And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
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Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
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When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
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Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
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That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
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The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
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For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
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Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
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To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
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For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
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The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
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The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
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For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
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Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
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Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
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The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
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The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
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They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
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And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
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Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
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And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
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For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
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And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
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But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
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And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
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But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
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Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
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And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
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And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
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And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
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But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
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And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
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For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
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And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
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And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
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For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
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But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
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But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
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And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
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And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
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And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
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So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
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Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
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But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
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Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
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For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
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Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
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And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.