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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>I will give thanks to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with my whole heart;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I will be glad and exult in you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>When my enemies turned back,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they stumbled and perished before you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For you have maintained my just cause;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have blotted out their name forever and ever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their cities you have rooted out;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the very memory of them has perished.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> sits enthroned forever,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has established his throne for judgment.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>He judges the world with righteousness;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he judges the peoples with equity.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is a stronghold for the oppressed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a stronghold in times of trouble.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And those who know your name put their trust in you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, have not forsaken those who seek you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Sing praises to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, who dwells in Zion.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Declare his deeds among the peoples.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Be gracious to me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">See what I suffer from those who hate me;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>so that I may recount all your praises,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and, in the gates of daughter Zion,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">rejoice in your deliverance.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has made himself known, he has executed judgment;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.<i><span class="selah">Higgaion. Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The wicked shall depart to Sheol,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all the nations that forget God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>For the needy shall not always be forgotten,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor the hope of the poor perish forever.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Rise up, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>! Do not let mortals prevail;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let the nations be judged before you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Put them in fear, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let the nations know that they are only human.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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