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712 Book of Psalms

21 Our God is the God of salvation: and of 36 God is wonderful in his saints: the God of
the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death. Israel is he who will give power and strength to
22 But God shall break the heads of his ene- his people. Blessed be God.
mies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in
their sins.
23 The Lord said: I will turn them from Chapter 68
Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the
sea: Unto the end, for them that shall be changed;
24 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood for David.
of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red 2 Save me, O God: for the waters are come in
with the same. even unto my soul.
25 They have seen thy goings, O God, the 3 I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there
goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanc- is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of
tuary. the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
26 Princes went before joined with singers, in 4 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are
the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels. become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope
27 In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from in my God.
the fountains of Israel. 5 They are multiplied above the hairs of my
28 There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of head, who hate me without cause. My enemies
mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the are grown strong who have wrongfully perse-
princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali. cuted me: then did I pay that which I took not
29 Command thy strength, O God confirm, O away.
God, what thou hast wrought in us. 6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and
30 From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall my offences are not hidden from thee:
offer presents to thee. 7 Let not them be ashamed for me, who look
31 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not
congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O
who seek to exclude them who are tried with God of Israel.
silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in 8 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
wars: shame hath covered my face.
32 Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: 9 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and
Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God. an alien to the sons of my mother.
33 Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing 10 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me
ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God, up: and the reproaches of them that reproached
34 Who mounteth above the heaven of heav- thee are fallen upon me.
ens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice 11 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it
the voice of power: was made a reproach to me.
35 Give ye glory to God for Israel, his mag- 12 And I made haircloth my garment: and I
nificence, and his power is in the clouds. became a byword to them.