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PSALMS
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- But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- 54And He brought them to His holy border,
- To the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.
- 55He drove out the nations also before them,
- And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
- And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- 56Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High,
- And kept not His testimonies;
- 57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers;
- They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- 58For they provoked Him with their high places,
- And moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.
- 59God heard, and was wroth,
- And He greatly abhorred Israel;
- 60And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
- The tent which He had made to dwell among men;
- 61And delivered His strength into captivity,
- And His glory into the adversary's hand.
- 62He gave His people over also unto the sword;
- And was wroth with His inheritance.
- 63Fire devoured their young men;
- And their virgins had no marriage-song.
- 64Their priests fell by the sword;
- And their widows made no lamentation.
- 65Then the Lord awaked as one asleep,
- Like a mighty man recovering from wine.
- 66And He smote His adversaries backward;
- He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
- 67Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph,
- And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
- 68But chose the tribe of Judah,
- The mount Zion which He loved.
- 69And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
- Like the earth which He hath founded for ever.
- 70He chose David also His servant,
- And took him from the sheepfolds;
- 71From following the ewes that give suck He brought him,
- To be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
- 72So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
- And lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.
79 A Psalm of Asaph.
- O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance;
- They have defiled Thy holy temple;
- They have made Jerusalem into heaps.
- 2They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven,
- The flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
- 3They have shed their blood like water
- Round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them.
- 4We are become a taunt to our neighbours,
- A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- 5How long, O Lord, wilt Thou be angry for ever?
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