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Shout for joy, you upright; praise comes well from the honest.
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Give thanks to Yahweh on the lyre, play for him on the ten-stringed lyre.
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Sing to him a new song, make sweet music for your cry of victory.
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The word of Yahweh is straightforward, all he does springs from his constancy.
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He loves uprightness and justice; the faithful love of Yahweh fills the earth.
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By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, by the breath of his mouth all their array.
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He collects the waters of the sea like a dam, he stores away the abyss in his treasure-house.
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Let the whole earth fear Yahweh, let all who dwell in the world revere him;
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for, the moment he spoke, it was so, no sooner had he commanded, than there it stood!
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Yahweh thwarts the plans of nations, frustrates the counsels of peoples;
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but Yahweh's own plan stands firm for ever, his heart's counsel from age to age.
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How blessed the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen as his heritage.
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From heaven Yahweh looks down, he sees all the children of Adam,
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from the place where he sits he watches all who dwell on the earth;
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he alone moulds their hearts, he understands all they do.
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A large army will not keep a king safe, nor his strength save a warrior's life;
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it is delusion to rely on a horse for safety, for all its power it cannot save.
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But see how Yahweh watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his faithful love,
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to rescue them from death and keep them alive in famine.
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We are waiting for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield,
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for in him our heart rejoices, in his holy name we trust.
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Yahweh, let your faithful love rest on us, as our hope has rested in you.
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