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[1] I WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works.
[2] I will be glad and rejoice in thee and I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
[3] When mine enemies are beaten back, they shall stumble and perish before thy presence.
[4] For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne, O thou righteous judge.
[5] Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles and thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
[6] My enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished.
[7] But the LORD shall endure for ever; he has prepared his throne for judgment.
[8] And he shall judge the world in righteousness and the people in uprightness.
[9] The LORD also will be a refuge for the poor, a refuge in times of trouble.
[10] And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O LORD.
[11] Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; declare among the people his skillful doings;
[12] For he has remembered to avenge their blood; he forgets not the cry of the poor.
[13] Have mercy upon me, O LORD, and consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, O thou that removest me away from the gates of death,
[14] That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in thy salvation.
[15] The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made; and their foot is caught in the net which they hid.
[16] The LORD makes known the judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
[17] The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, and all the peoples that forsake God.
[18] For the poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
[19] Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.
[20] Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
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