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A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
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A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
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My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
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He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
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The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
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The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
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Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
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Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
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For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
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Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
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For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
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Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
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A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
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Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
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Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
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A Song of degrees of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
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If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
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Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
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Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
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Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
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Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
