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 <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"> 1The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.</div><div class="p"> 2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. 3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. 4And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. 7But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 8Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.</div><div class="p"> 10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.</div>
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 <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"> 1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.</div><div class="s2">Israel, a Faithless Wife</div><div class="p"> 2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.</div><div class="p"> 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.</div><div class="p"> 14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.</div><div class="p"> 19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.</div>
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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="s2">The LORD's Controversy</div><div class="p"> 1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. 5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.</div><div class="p"> 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.</div><div class="p"> 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.</div><div class="p"> 15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. 16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.</div>
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 <div class="label">7</div><div class="s2">A Half-baked Cake</div><div class="p"> 1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.</div><div class="p"> 8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. 11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. 13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. 15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.</div>
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 <div class="label">13</div><div class="s2">The Only Saviour</div><div class="p"> 1When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.</div><div class="p"> 4Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. 5I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. 7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: 8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.</div><div class="p"> 9O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 11I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children. 14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.</div><div class="p"> 15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. 16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.</div>
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 <div class="label">14</div><div class="s2">Return, O Israel!</div><div class="p"> 1O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. 3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.</div><div class="p"> 4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. 5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 8Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.</div><div class="p"> 9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</div>
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 <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"> 1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.</div><div class="p"> 4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11and the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?</div><div class="p"> 12Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?</div><div class="p"> 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?</div><div class="p"> 18Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20but I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.</div><div class="p"> 21Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.</div><div class="p"> 28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.</div><div class="p"> 30And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.</div>
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So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.</div><div class="p"> 24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.</div><div class="p"> 27Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 30And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.</div><div class="p"> 34Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. 37And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. 38And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. 39But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.</div>
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 <div class="label">33</div><div class="q1"> 1Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous:</div><div class="q2"> For praise is comely for the upright.</div><div class="q1"> 2Praise the LORD with harp:</div><div class="q2">Sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.</div><div class="q1"> 3Sing unto him a new song;</div><div class="q2">Play skilfully with a loud noise.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4For the word of the LORD is right;</div><div class="q2">And all his works are done in truth.</div><div class="q1"> 5He loveth righteousness and judgment:</div><div class="q2">The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.</div><div class="q1"> 6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;</div><div class="q2">And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap:</div><div class="q2">He layeth up the depth in storehouses.</div><div class="q1"> 8Let all the earth fear the LORD:</div><div class="q2">Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.</div><div class="q1"> 9For he spake, and it was done;</div><div class="q2">He commanded, and it stood fast.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought:</div><div class="q2">He maketh the devices of the people of none effect.</div><div class="q1"> 11The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever,</div><div class="q2">The thoughts of his heart to all generations.</div><div class="q1"> 12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;</div><div class="q2"> And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.</div><div class="q1"> 13The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.</div><div class="q2"> 14From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 15He fashioneth their hearts alike;</div><div class="q2">He considereth all their works.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host:</div><div class="q2">A mighty man is not delivered by much strength.</div><div class="q1"> 17An horse is a vain thing for safety:</div><div class="q2">Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.</div><div class="q1"> 18Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him,</div><div class="q2">Upon them that hope in his mercy;</div><div class="q1"> 19To deliver their soul from death,</div><div class="q2">And to keep them alive in famine.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 20Our soul waiteth for the LORD:</div><div class="q2">He is our help and our shield.</div><div class="q1"> 21For our heart shall rejoice in him,</div><div class="q2">Because we have trusted in his holy name.</div><div class="q1"> 22Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us,</div><div class="q2">According as we hope in thee.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">42</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.</div><div class="q1"> 1As the hart panteth after the water brooks,</div><div class="q2">So panteth my soul after thee, O God.</div><div class="q1"> 2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:</div><div class="q2">When shall I come and appear before God?</div><div class="q1"> 3My tears have been my meat day and night,</div><div class="q2">While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me:</div><div class="q2">For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God,</div><div class="q1">With the voice of joy and praise,</div><div class="q2">With a multitude that kept holyday.</div><div class="q1"> 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</div><div class="q2">And why art thou disquieted in me?</div><div class="q1">Hope thou in God:</div><div class="q2">For I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6O my God, my soul is cast down within me:</div><div class="q2">Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.</div><div class="q1"> 7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:</div><div class="q2">All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.</div><div class="q1"> 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,</div><div class="q2">And in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.</div><div class="q1"> 9I will say unto God my rock, why hast thou forgotten me?</div><div class="q2">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</div><div class="q1"> 10 As with a sword in my bones,</div><div class="q2">Mine enemies reproach me;</div><div class="q1">While they say daily unto me,</div><div class="q2">Where is thy God?</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</div><div class="q2">And why art thou disquieted within me?</div><div class="q1">Hope thou in God;</div><div class="q2">For I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">43</div><div class="q1"> 1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:</div><div class="q2">O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.</div><div class="q1"> 2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off?</div><div class="q2">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3O send out thy light and thy truth: Let them lead me;</div><div class="q2">Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.</div><div class="q1"> 4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:</div><div class="q2">Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</div><div class="q2">And why art thou disquieted within me?</div><div class="q1">Hope in God:</div><div class="q2">For I shall yet praise him, Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">44</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.</div><div class="q1"> 1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,</div><div class="q2"> What work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.</div><div class="q1"> 2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them;</div><div class="q2"> How thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.</div><div class="q1"> 3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,</div><div class="q2">Neither did their own arm save them:</div><div class="q1">But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,</div><div class="q2">Because thou hadst a favour unto them.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverances for Jacob.</div><div class="q1"> 5Through thee will we push down our enemies:</div><div class="q2">Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.</div><div class="q1"> 6For I will not trust in my bow,</div><div class="q2">Neither shall my sword save me.</div><div class="q1"> 7But thou hast saved us from our enemies,</div><div class="q2">And hast put them to shame that hated us.</div><div class="q1"> 8In God we boast all the day long,</div><div class="q2">And praise thy name for ever. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;</div><div class="q2">And goest not forth with our armies.</div><div class="q1"> 10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:</div><div class="q2">And they which hate us spoil for themselves.</div><div class="q1"> 11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;</div><div class="q2">And hast scattered us among the heathen.</div><div class="q1"> 12Thou sellest thy people for nought,</div><div class="q2">And dost not increase thy wealth by their price.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours,</div><div class="q2">A scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.</div><div class="q1"> 14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,</div><div class="q2">A shaking of the head among the people.</div><div class="q1"> 15My confusion is continually before me,</div><div class="q2">And the shame of my face hath covered me,</div><div class="q1"> 16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;</div><div class="q2">By reason of the enemy and avenger.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,</div><div class="q2">Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.</div><div class="q1"> 18Our heart is not turned back,</div><div class="q2">Neither have our steps declined from thy way;</div><div class="q1"> 19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,</div><div class="q2">And covered us with the shadow of death.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;</div><div class="q2"> 21Shall not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.</div><div class="q1"> 22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;</div><div class="q2">We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?</div><div class="q2">Arise, cast us not off for ever.</div><div class="q1"> 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face,</div><div class="q2"> And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?</div><div class="q1"> 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust:</div><div class="q2">Our belly cleaveth unto the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 26Arise for our help,</div><div class="q2">And redeem us for thy mercies' sake.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">45</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.</div><div class="q1"> 1My heart is inditing a good matter:</div><div class="q2">I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:</div><div class="q1">My tongue is</div><div class="q2">The pen of a ready writer.</div><div class="q1"> 2Thou art fairer than the children of men:</div><div class="q2">Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.</div><div class="q1"> 3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty,</div><div class="q2">With thy glory and thy majesty.</div><div class="q1"> 4And in thy majesty ride prosperously</div><div class="q2">Because of truth and meekness and righteousness; And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.</div><div class="q1"> 5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;</div><div class="q2"> Whereby the people fall under thee.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:</div><div class="q2">The sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.</div><div class="q1"> 7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:</div><div class="q2">Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.</div><div class="q1"> 8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,</div><div class="q2">Out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.</div><div class="q1"> 9Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women:</div><div class="q2">Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;</div><div class="q2">Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;</div><div class="q1"> 11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:</div><div class="q2">For he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.</div><div class="q1"> 12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;</div><div class="q2"> Even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13The king's daughter is all glorious within:</div><div class="q2">Her clothing is of wrought gold.</div><div class="q1"> 14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:</div><div class="q2">The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.</div><div class="q1"> 15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:</div><div class="q2">They shall enter into the king's palace.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,</div><div class="q2">Whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:</div><div class="q2">Therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">46</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.</div><div class="q1"> 1God is our refuge and strength,</div><div class="q2">A very present help in trouble.</div><div class="q1"> 2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,</div><div class="q2">And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;</div><div class="q1"> 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,</div><div class="q2"> Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,</div><div class="q2">The holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.</div><div class="q1"> 5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:</div><div class="q2">God shall help her, and that right early.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:</div><div class="q2">He uttered his voice, the earth melted.</div><div class="q1"> 7The LORD of hosts is with us;</div><div class="q2">The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Come, behold the works of the LORD,</div><div class="q2">What desolations he hath made in the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;</div><div class="q2">He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.</div><div class="q1"> 10Be still, and know that I am God:</div><div class="q2">I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11The LORD of hosts is with us;</div><div class="q2">The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">47</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.</div><div class="q1"> 1O clap your hands, all ye people;</div><div class="q2">Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.</div><div class="q1"> 2For the LORD most high is terrible;</div><div class="q2"> He is a great King over all the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 3He shall subdue the people under us,</div><div class="q2">And the nations under our feet.</div><div class="q1"> 4He shall choose our inheritance for us,</div><div class="q2">The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5God is gone up with a shout,</div><div class="q2">The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.</div><div class="q1"> 6Sing praises to God, sing praises:</div><div class="q2">Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.</div><div class="q1"> 7For God is the King of all the earth:</div><div class="q2">Sing ye praises with understanding.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8God reigneth over the heathen:</div><div class="q2">God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.</div><div class="q1"> 9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham:</div><div class="q2">For the shields of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">49</div><div class="d">To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.</div><div class="q1"> 1Hear this, all ye people;</div><div class="q2">Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:</div><div class="q1"> 2Both low and high,</div><div class="q2">Rich and poor, together.</div><div class="q1"> 3My mouth shall speak of wisdom;</div><div class="q2">And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.</div><div class="q1"> 4I will incline mine ear to a parable:</div><div class="q2">I will open my dark saying upon the harp.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,</div><div class="q2"> When the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?</div><div class="q1"> 6They that trust in their wealth,</div><div class="q2">And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;</div><div class="q1"> 7None of them can by any means redeem his brother,</div><div class="q2">Nor give to God a ransom for him:</div><div class="q1"> 8(For the redemption of their soul is precious,</div><div class="q2">And it ceaseth for ever:)</div><div class="q1"> 9That he should still live for ever,</div><div class="q2"> And not see corruption.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10For he seeth that wise men die,</div><div class="q2">Likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.</div><div class="q1"> 11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,</div><div class="q1"> And their dwelling places to all generations;</div><div class="q2">They call their lands after their own names.</div><div class="q1"> 12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not:</div><div class="q2">He is like the beasts that perish.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13This their way is their folly:</div><div class="q2">Yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.</div><div class="q1"> 14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; Death shall feed on them; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;</div><div class="q2">And their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.</div><div class="q1"> 15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:</div><div class="q2">For he shall receive me. Selah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,</div><div class="q2">When the glory of his house is increased;</div><div class="q1"> 17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away:</div><div class="q2">His glory shall not descend after him.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 18Though while he lived he blessed his soul,</div><div class="q2">And men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.</div><div class="q1"> 19He shall go to the generation of his fathers;</div><div class="q2">They shall never see light.</div><div class="q1"> 20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not,</div><div class="q2">Is like the beasts that perish.</div><div class="b"></div>
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