101 lines
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101 lines
2.8 KiB
Markdown
You Keep Him in Perfect Peace
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# Chapter 26
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1. In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
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"We have a strong city;
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he sets up salvation
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as walls and bulwarks.
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2. Open the gates,
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that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
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3. You keep him in perfect peace
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whose mind is stayed on you,
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because he trusts in you.
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4. Trust in the LORD forever,
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for the LORD God is an everlasting rock.
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5. For he has humbled
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the inhabitants of the height,
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the lofty city.
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He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
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casts it to the dust.
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6. The foot tramples it,
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the feet of the poor,
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the steps of the needy."
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7. The path of the righteous is level;
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you make level the way of the righteous.
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8. In the path of your judgments,
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O LORD, we wait for you;
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your name and remembrance
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are the desire of our soul.
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9. My soul yearns for you in the night;
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my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
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For when your judgments are in the earth,
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the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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10. If favor is shown to the wicked,
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he does not learn righteousness;
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in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
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and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
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11. O LORD, your hand is lifted up,
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but they do not see it.
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Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
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Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
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12. O LORD, you will ordain peace for us,
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for you have indeed done for us all our works.
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13. O LORD our God,
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other lords besides you have ruled over us,
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but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
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14. They are dead, they will not live;
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they are shades, they will not arise;
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to that end you have visited them with destruction
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and wiped out all remembrance of them.
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15. But you have increased the nation, O LORD,
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you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
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you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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16. O LORD, in distress they sought you;
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they poured out a whispered prayer
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when your discipline was upon them.
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17. Like a pregnant woman
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who writhes and cries out in her pangs
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when she is near to giving birth,
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so were we because of you, O LORD;
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18. we were pregnant, we writhed,
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but we have given birth to wind.
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We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
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and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
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19. Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
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You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
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For your dew is a dew of light,
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and the earth will give birth to the dead.
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20. Come, my people, enter your chambers,
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and shut your doors behind you;
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hide yourselves for a little while
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until the fury has passed by.
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21. For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place
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to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,
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and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
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and will no more cover its slain.
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