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A Psalm of David. A Song.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Praise is due to you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O God, in Zion;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and to you shall vows be performed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>O you who answer prayer!</span></span><br /><span class="text">To you all flesh shall come.</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you forgive our transgressions.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Happy are those whom you choose and bring near</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to live in your courts.</span></span><br /><span class="text">We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your holy temple.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O God of our salvation;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you are the hope of all the ends of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and of the farthest seas.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>By your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16937a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> strength you established the mountains;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you are girded with might.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You silence the roaring of the seas,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the roaring of their waves,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the tumult of the peoples.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;</span><br /><span class="text">you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>You visit the earth and water it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you greatly enrich it;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the river of God is full of water;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you provide the people with grain,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for so you have prepared it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You water its furrows abundantly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">settling its ridges,</span></span><br /><span class="text">softening it with showers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and blessing its growth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>You crown the year with your bounty;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your wagon tracks overflow with richness.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The pastures of the wilderness overflow,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the hills gird themselves with joy,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the valleys deck themselves with grain,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they shout and sing together for joy.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 65:6">Psalm 65:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Jerome: Heb <i>his</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture 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