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KING JAMES VERSION
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I will love thee, O
LORD, my strength. |
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The LORD is my rock,
and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will
trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
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I will call upon the
LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
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The sorrows of death
compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
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The sorrows of hell
compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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In my distress I
called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his
temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
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Then the earth shook
and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken,
because he was wroth.
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There went up a
smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were
kindled by it.
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He bowed the heavens
also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
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And he rode upon a
cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
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He made darkness his
secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds
of the skies.
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At the brightness
that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
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The LORD also
thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and
coals of fire.
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Yea, he sent out his
arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited
them.
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Then the channels of
waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy
rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
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He sent from above,
he took me, he drew me out of many waters. |
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He delivered me from
my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for
me.
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They prevented me in
the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
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He brought me forth
also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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The LORD rewarded me
according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath
he recompensed me.
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For I have kept the
ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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For all his
judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
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I was also upright
before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
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Therefore hath the
LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the
cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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With the merciful
thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright;
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With the pure thou
wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
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For thou wilt save
the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
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For thou wilt light
my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
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For by thee I have
run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
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As for God, his way
is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that
trust in him.
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For who is God save
the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? |
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It is God that
girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
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He maketh my feet
like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
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He teacheth my hands
to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
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Thou hast also given
me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and
thy gentleness hath made me great.
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Thou hast enlarged
my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. |
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I have pursued mine
enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were
consumed.
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I have wounded them
that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
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For thou hast girded
me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose
up against me.
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Thou hast also given
me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
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They cried, but
there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
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Then did I beat them
small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the
streets.
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Thou hast delivered
me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the
heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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As soon as they hear
of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
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The strangers shall
fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
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The LORD liveth; and
blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
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It is God that
avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. |
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He delivereth me
from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against
me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
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Therefore will I
give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy
name.
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Great deliverance
giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to
his seed for evermore.
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