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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
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Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
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And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
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Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
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Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
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So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
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The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
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She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
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With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
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Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
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To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
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Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
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He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
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The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
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For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
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He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
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He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
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God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
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Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
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For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
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God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
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The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
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A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
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God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
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For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
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They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
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Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
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As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
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According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
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Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
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Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
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For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
