| 1 ¶ In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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| 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth1 may enter in.
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| 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect2 peace, whose mind3 is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
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| 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting4 strength:
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| 5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
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| 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
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| 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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| 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
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| 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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| 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
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| 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at5 the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
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| 12 ¶ LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us:6 for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
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| 13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
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| 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
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| 15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
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| 16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer7 when thy chastening was upon them.
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| 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
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| 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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| 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
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| 20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
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| 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood,8 and shall no more cover her slain.
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