Psalm 7Psalm 8Psalm 9Psalm 101 Corinthians 10.1-13Psalm 7
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O Lord my God, I put my faith in you take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free
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So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
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O Lord my God, if I have done this if my hands have done any wrong
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If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause
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Let my hater go after my soul and take it let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
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Come up, Lord, in your wrath be lifted up against my haters be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
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The meeting of the nations will be round you take your seat, then, over them, on high.
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The Lord will be judge of the peoples give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
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O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
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God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.
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God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.
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If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp his bow is bent and ready.
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He has made ready for him the instruments of death he makes his arrows flames of fire.
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That man is a worker of evil the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
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He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
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His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
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I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalm 8
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O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!
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You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
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When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places
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What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
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For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.
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You have made him ruler over the works of your hands you have put all things under his feet
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All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field
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The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.
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O Lord, our Lord, how noble is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 9
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I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart I will make clear all the wonder of your works.
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I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.
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When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
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For you gave approval to my right and my cause you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
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You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.
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You have given their towns to destruction the memory of them has gone they have become waste for ever.
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But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
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And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
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The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble
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And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
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Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
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When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
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Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters let me be lifted up from the doors of death
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So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
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The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
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The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
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The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
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For the poor will not be without help the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.
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Up! O Lord let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.
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Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
Psalm 10
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Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
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The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
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For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
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The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
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His ways are ever fixed your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
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He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
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He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
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He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
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The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
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He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away he will never see it.
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Up! O Lord let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
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Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
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You have seen it for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
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Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
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The Lord is King for ever and ever the nations are gone from his land.
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Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
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To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
1 Corinthians 10
1-13
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For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea
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And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea
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And they all took the same holy food
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And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.
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But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.
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Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.
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Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.
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Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
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And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
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And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.
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Now these things were done as an example and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.
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So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.
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You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
