Hello and welcome back
to "His words are life."
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I am Kelly Mowrer, and today we
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are reading together
in the book of Psalm.
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We were in Psalm 78
when we were last reading.
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and it's actually a
Psalm of Asaph that is
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recounting the
deeds of God in the
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history of Israel.
And he recounts all
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the things that God
did, and yet Israel doubted
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and rebelled and
disobeyed and turned
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from God, they did not seek him.
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As we continue this today,
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the Holy Spirit
can bring to each
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of our hearts, a
deeper understanding
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of ways in our
own life when we have
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not remembered
properly the glory of
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God that He has revealed to us,
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and the power that
he has worked in each
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of our own lives,
and we can ask Him to
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renew in us a
desire to seek Him and to
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believe in His care
and keeping for us in
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whatever we are facing now,
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because of all
of the greatness of
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His past care for
us. Let's pray before we
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start. Dear Lord,
thank you that you
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are with us
always. Please forgive us
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when we don't
remember your greatness,
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and your glory.
Please bring to our
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mind the power
that you have shown us
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of your love and of
your mercy in the past,
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so that in whatever
we're facing right now,
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we may know that you
are in control because
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you are our God.
We love you so much,
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and thank you for loving us,
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in Jesus name I pray, amen.
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We're picking up
this account of Israel's
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history in Psalm 78.
This is the King James
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Version beginning with verse 45.
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He sent divers
sorts of flies among them,
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which devoured them; and frogs,
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which destroyed
them. He gave also their
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increase unto the caterpillar,
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and their labor unto the locust.
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He destroyed
their vines with hail,
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and their
Sycamore trees with frost.
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He gave up their
cattle also to the hail,
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and their flocks
to hot thunderbolts.
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He cast upon them the
fierceness of his anger,
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wrath, and indignation,
and trouble by sending
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evil angels among
them. He made a way
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to his anger;
he spared not their
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soul from death,
but gave their life over
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to the
pestilence; And smote all the
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firstborn in
Egypt; the chief of their
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strength in the
tabernacles of Ham:
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But made his own
people to go forth like sheep,
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and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.
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And he led them on safely,
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so that they feared
not: but the sea overwhelmed
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their enemies.
And he brought them to
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the border of his sanctuary,
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even to this
mountain, which his right hand
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had purchased. He
cast out the heathen
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also before
them, and divided them
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an inheritance by
line, and made the tribes
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of Israel to
dwell in their tents.
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Yet they
tempted and provoked the
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most high God, and
kept not his testimonies:
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But turned back
and dealt unfaithfully
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like their fathers:
they were turned aside
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like a deceitful
bow. For they provoked
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him to anger with
their high places,
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and moved him to
jealousy with their
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graven images.
When God heard this,
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he was wroth, and
greatly abhorred Israel:
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So that he forsook
the tabernacle of Shiloh,
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the tent which
he placed among men;
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And delivered his
strength into captivity,
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and his glory
into the enemy's hand.
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He gave his people
over also unto the sword;
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and was wroth
with his inheritance.
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The fire
consumed their young men;
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and their
maidens were not given to
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marriage. Their
priests fell by the sword;
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and their widows
made no lamentation.
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Then the LORD
awaked as one out of sleep,
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and like a mighty
man that shouteth by
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reason of wine. And he smote his
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enemies in the hinder parts:
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he put them to a
perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he refused
the tabernacle of Joseph,
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and chose not
the tribe of Ephraim:
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But chose the tribe of Judah,
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the mount Zion which he loved.
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And he built his sanctuary like
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high palaces,
like the earth which
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he hath established for ever.
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He chose David also his servant,
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and took him
from the sheepfolds:
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From following the
ewes great with young
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he brought him to
feed Jacob his people,
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and Israel his inheritance.
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So he fed them
according to the integrity
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of his heart; and guided them
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by the
skillfulness of his hands.
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Continuing with Psalm 79. O God,
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the heathen are come
into thine inheritance;
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thy holy temple
have they defiled;
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they have laid
Jerusalem on heaps.
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The dead bodies
of thy servants have
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they given to be
meat unto the fowls
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of the heaven, the
flesh of thy saints
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unto the beasts of the earth.
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Their blood have
they shed like water
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round about
Jerusalem; and there was none to
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bury them. We are become
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a reproach to our neighbors,
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a scorn and
derision to them that are
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round about us. How long, Lord?
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Wilt thou be angry forever?
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Shall thy
jealousy burn like fire?
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Pour out thy
wrath upon the heathen
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that have not known
thee, and upon the kingdoms
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that have not
called upon thy name.
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For they have devoured Jacob,
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and laid waste
his dwelling place.
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O remember not against us
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former iniquities:
let thy tender mercies
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speedily prevent
us: for we are brought
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very low. Help us, O
God of our salvation,
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for the glory of thy
name: and deliver us,
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and purge away our
sins, for thy name's sake.
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Wherefore
should the heathen say,
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Where is their
God? Let him be known
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among the heathen
in our sight by the
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revenging of the
blood of thy servants
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which is shed.
Let the sighing of
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the prisoner come before thee;
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according to
the greatness of thy
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power preserve
thou those that are
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appointed to die;
And render unto our
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neighbors
sevenfold into their bosom
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their reproach,
wherewith they have
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reproached thee, O
Lord. So we thy people
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and sheep of thy
pasture will give thee
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thanks forever: we
will show forth thy
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praise to all generations.
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Continuing with Psalm 80.
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This is the King
James Version. Give ear,
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O Shepherd of Israel,
thou that leadest Joseph
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like a flock; thou that dwellest
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between the
Cherubims, shine forth.
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Before Ephraim and
Benjamin and Manasseh
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stir up thy
strength, and come and save us.
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Turn us again, O God, and cause
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thy face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
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O Lord God of hosts,
how long wilt thou be
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angry against the
prayer of thy people?
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Thou feedest them
with the bread of tears;
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and givest them
tears to drink in
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great measure. Thou makest us a
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strife unto our
neighbors: and our enemies laugh
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among themselves. Turn us again,
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O God of hosts, and cause thy
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face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
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Thou hast brought
a vine out of Egypt:
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thou hast cast out the heathen,
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and planted it. Thou preparedst
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room before it,
and didst cause it
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to take deep root,
and it filled the land.
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The hills were
covered with the shadow of it,
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and the boughs thereof were like
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the goodly
cedars. She sent out her
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boughs unto the
sea, and her branches
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unto the river.
Why hast thou then
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broken down her hedges,
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so that all they
which pass by the way
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do pluck her? The boar out of
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the wood doth waste
it, and the wild beast of
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the field doth
devour it. Return,
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we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
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look down from
heaven, and behold,
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and visit this
vine; And the vineyard
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which thy right
hand hath planted,
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and the branch that thou madest
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strong for thyself.
It is burned with fire,
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it is cut down:
they perish at the
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rebuke of thy countenance.
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Let thy hand be upon the man of
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thy right hand,
upon the son of man
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whom thou madest
strong for thyself.
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So will not we
go back from thee:
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quicken us, and we
will call upon thy name.
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Turn us again, O
Lord, God of hosts,
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cause thy face to
shine; and we shall be saved.
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Psalm 81. This is
the King James Version.
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Sing aloud unto
God our strength:
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make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob.
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Take a Psalm, and
bring hither the timbrel,
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the pleasant harp
with the psaltery.
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Blow up the
trumpet in the new moon,
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in the time appointed
on our solemn feast day.
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For this was a
statute for Israel,
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and a law of the God of Jacob.
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This he ordained in
Joseph for a testimony,
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when he went out
through the land of Egypt:
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where I heard a
language that I understood not.
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I removed his
shoulder from the burden:
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his hands were
delivered from the pots.
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Thou calledst in
trouble, and I delivered thee;
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I answered thee in the
secret place of thunder:
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I proved thee at
the waters of Meribah.
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Selah. Hear, O my people,
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and I will testify
unto thee: O Israel,
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if thou wilt hearken unto me;
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There shall no
strange God be in thee;
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neither shalt thou
worship any strange God.
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I am the LORD thy
God, which brought thee
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out of the land of
Egypt: open thy mouth wide,
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and I will fill
it. But my people
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would not hearken to my voice;
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and Israel would none of me.
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So I gave them up unto
their own hearts' lust:
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and they walked in
their own counsels.
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Oh that my people
had hearkened unto me,
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and Israel had
walked in my ways!
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I should soon have
subdued their enemies,
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and turned my hand against their
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adversaries. The
haters of the Lord
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should have
submitted themselves unto him:
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but their time
should have endured forever.
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He should have
fed them also with the
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finest of the
wheat: and with honey
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out of the rock,
should I have satisfied thee.
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Psalm 82. God
standeth in the congregation
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of the mighty; he
judgeth among the Gods.
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How long will ye judge unjustly,
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and accept the
persons of the wicked?
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Selah. Defend the
poor and fatherless:
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do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
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Deliver the poor and needy:
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rid them out of
the hand of the wicked.
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They know not,
neither will they understand;
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they walk on in
darkness: all the foundations of
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the earth ar out of course.
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I have said, Ye are
Gods; and all of you are
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children of the most High.
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But ye shall die like men,
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and fall like
one of the princes.
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Arise, O God, judge the earth:
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for thou shalt
inherit all nations. Psalm 83.
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This is the King James Version.
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Keep not thou silence,
O God: hold not thy peace,
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and be not
still, O God. For, lo,
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thine enemies make a tumult:
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and they that hate thee have
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lifted up the
head. They have taken
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crafty counsel
against thy people,
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and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
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They have said, Come,
and let us cut them off
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from being a nation;
that the name of Israel
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maybe no more in remembrance.
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For they have consulted together
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with one consent:
they are confederate
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against thee: The
tabernacles of Edom,
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and the Ishmaelites; of Moab,
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and the
Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon,
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and Amalek; the Philistines with
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the inhabitants of
Tyre; Assur also is joined
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with them: they have holpen
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the children of
Lot. Selah. Do unto them
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as unto the
Midianites; as to Sisera,
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as to Jabin, at
the brook of Kison:
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Which perished at
Endor: they became as dung
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for the earth. Make
their nobles like Oreb,
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and like Zeeb:
yea, all their princes
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as Zebah, and as
Zalmunna: Who said,
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Let us take to
ourselves the houses
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of God in
possession. O my God, make them
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like a wheel; as the
stubble before the wind.
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As the fire burneth a wood,
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and as the flame
setteth the mountains on fire;
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So persecute
them with thy tempest,
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and make them
afraid with thy storm.
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Fill their faces with shame;
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that they may
seek thy name, O Lord.
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Let them be confounded
and troubled for ever;
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yea, let them be put
to shame, and perish:
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That men may know that thou,
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whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
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art the most high
over all the earth.
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Psalm 84. How
amiable are thy tabernacles,
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O Lord of
hosts! My soul longeth,
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yea, even fainteth for
the courts of the Lord:
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my heart and my flesh crieth out
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for the living
God. Yea, the sparrow
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hath found an
house, and the swallow a
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nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
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even thine
altars, O Lord of hosts,
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my King, and my God.
Blessed are they that
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dwell in thy house:
they will be still praising
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thee. Selah. Blessed is the man
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whose strength is in thee;
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in whose heart
are the ways of them.
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Who passing
through the valley of Baca
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make it a well; the
rain also filleth the pools.
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They go from
strength to strength,
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every one of
them in Zion appeareth
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before God. O Lord God of hosts,
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hear my prayer: give
ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
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