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By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken make it strong again, for it is moved.
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You have made the people see hard times you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
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Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)
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So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
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God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
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Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine and Ephraim is the strength of my head Judah is my law-giver
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Moab is my washpot over Edom will I put out my shoe over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
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Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
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Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.
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Give us help in our trouble for there is no help in man.
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Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.
Psalm 61
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Let my cry come to you, O God let your ears be open to my prayer.
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From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
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For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.
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I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)
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For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.
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You will give the king long life and make his years go on through the generations.
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May the seat of his authority be before God for ever may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.
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So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.
Psalm 62
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My soul, put all your faith in God for from him comes my salvation.
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He only is my Rock and my salvation he is my high tower I will not be greatly moved.
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How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?
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Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
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My soul, put all your faith in God for from him comes my hope.
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He only is my Rock and my salvation he is my high tower I will not be greatly moved.
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In God is my salvation, and my glory the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
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Have faith in him at all times, you people let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
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Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
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Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
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Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
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And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.
Psalm 63
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To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.
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Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
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So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
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My soul will be comforted, as with good food and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy
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When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
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Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.
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My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
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But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
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They will be cut off by the sword they will be food for foxes.
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But the king will have joy in God everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride but the false mouth will be stopped.
2 Corinthians 10
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Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:
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Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.
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For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh
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(For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places)
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Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ
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Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.
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Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.
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For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:
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That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.
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For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.
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Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.
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For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.
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We will not give glory to ourselves in over-great measure, but after the measure of the rule which God has given us, a measure which comes even to you.
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For we have no need to make ourselves seem more than we are, as if our authority did not come as far as to you: for we came even as far as you with the good news of Christ:
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Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,
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So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.
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But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
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For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.
