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_Lift Up Your Eyes_ – Psalms of Hope · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God seekers. Today I've got a psalms mixed
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  Speaker 1: for you called lift up your Eyes. The idea here
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  Speaker 1: is that I've gone through the psalms and tried to
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  Speaker 1: find as many as I can that correspond to the
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  Speaker 1: idea of feeling hopeful and lifting up your eyes to
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  Speaker 1: God as He lifts you up. So I hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where
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  Speaker 2: does my help come. My help comes from the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: the maker of heaven and earth. He will not allow
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  Speaker 2: your foot to slip. Your protector will not slumber. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is your keeper. The Lord is the shade on
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  Speaker 2: your right Handune will not strike you by day, nor
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  Speaker 2: the moon by night. The Lord will guard you from
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  Speaker 2: all evil. He will preserve your soul. The Lord will
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  Speaker 2: watch over your coming and going, both now and for evermore.
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  Speaker 2: I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined to me
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  Speaker 2: and heard my cry. He lifted me up from the
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  Speaker 2: pit of despair out of the miry clay. He set
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  Speaker 2: my feet upon a rock and made my footsteps firm.
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  Speaker 2: He put a new song in my mouth a hymn
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  Speaker 2: of praise to our God. Many will see and fear
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  Speaker 2: and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the
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  Speaker 2: man who has made the Lord his trust, who has
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  Speaker 2: not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse
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  Speaker 2: into falsehood. Many, O Lord, my God, are the wonders
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  Speaker 2: you have done and the plans you have for us?
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  Speaker 2: None can compare to you. If I proclaim and declare them,
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  Speaker 2: They are more than I can count. Sacrifice and offering
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  Speaker 2: you did not desire, But my ears, you have opened,
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  Speaker 2: burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then
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  Speaker 2: I said, here I am. I have come. It is
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  Speaker 2: written about me in the scroll. I delight to do
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  Speaker 2: your will. Oh, my God, your law is within my heart.
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  Speaker 2: I proclaim righteousness in the Great Assembly. Behold, I do
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  Speaker 2: not seal my lips as you, O Lord, do.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I have not covered up your righteousness in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: I have declared your faithfulness and salvation. I have not
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  Speaker 2: concealed your loving dey, devotion and faithfulness from the Great Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, do not withhold your mercy from me. Your
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  Speaker 2: loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me. For evils
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  Speaker 2: without number surround me. My sins have overtaken me so
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  Speaker 2: that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs
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  Speaker 2: of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
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  Speaker 2: Be pleased, O Lord to deliver me. Hurry, O Lord
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  Speaker 2: to help me. May those who seek my life be
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  Speaker 2: ashamed and confounded. May those who wish me harm be
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  Speaker 2: repelled and humiliated. May those who say to me, aha,
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  Speaker 2: aha be appalled at their own shame. May all who
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  Speaker 2: seek you rejoice and be glad in you. May those
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  Speaker 2: who love your salvation always say the Lord be magnified.
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  Speaker 2: But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think
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  Speaker 2: of me. You are my helper and deliverer. O, my God,
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  Speaker 2: do not delay. I will bless the Lord at all times.
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  Speaker 2: His praise will always be on my lips. My soul
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  Speaker 2: boasts in the Lord. Let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
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  Speaker 2: Magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together.
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  Speaker 2: I sought the Lord, and he answered me. He delivered
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  Speaker 2: me from all my fears. Those who look to him
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  Speaker 2: are radiant with joy. Their faces shall never be ashamed.
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  Speaker 2: This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him.
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  Speaker 2: He saved him from all his troubles. The Angel of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he
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  Speaker 2: deliver them. Taste and see that the Lord is good.
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  Speaker 2: Blest is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, you his saints. For those who fear him
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  Speaker 2: lack nothing. Young lions go lacking and hungry. But those
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  Speaker 2: who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, children,
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  Speaker 2: listen to me. I will teach you the fear of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, who is the man who delights in life,
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  Speaker 2: who desires to see good days. Keep your tongue from
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  Speaker 2: evil and your lips from deceitful speech. Turn away from
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  Speaker 2: evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. The
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his
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  Speaker 2: ears are inclined to their cry. But the face of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is against those who do evil, to wipe
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  Speaker 2: out all memory of them from the earth. The righteous
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  Speaker 2: cry out, and the Lord hears. He delivers them from
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  Speaker 2: all their troubles. The Lord is near to the broken hearted.
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  Speaker 2: He saves the contrite in spirit. Many are the afflictions
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  Speaker 2: of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them. All.
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  Speaker 2: He protects all his bones. Not one of them will
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  Speaker 2: be broken. Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters
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  Speaker 2: of the righteous will be condemned. The Lord redeems his servants,
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  Speaker 2: and none who take refuge in him will be condemned.
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  Speaker 2: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His
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  Speaker 2: loving devotion endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: say so whom he has redeemed from the hand of
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, and gathered from the lands from east and west,
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  Speaker 2: from north and south. Some wandered in desert waste lands,
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  Speaker 2: finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
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  Speaker 2: They were hungry and thirsty. Their soul fainted within them.
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  Speaker 2: Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
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  Speaker 2: and he delivered them from their distress. He led them
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  Speaker 2: on a straight path to reach a city where they
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  Speaker 2: could live. Let them give thanks to the Lord for
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  Speaker 2: his loving devotion and his wonders to the sons of men,
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  Speaker 2: for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with
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  Speaker 2: good things. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow
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  Speaker 2: of death, prisoners in affliction and chains, because they rebelled
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  Speaker 2: against the words of God and despised the counsel of
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  Speaker 2: the most High. He humbled their hearts with hard labor.
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  Speaker 2: They stumbled, and there was no one to help. Then
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  Speaker 2: they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and
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  Speaker 2: he saved them from their distress. He brought them out
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  Speaker 2: of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away
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  Speaker 2: their chains. Let them give thanks to the Lord for
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  Speaker 2: his loving devotion and his wonders to the sons of men,
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  Speaker 2: For he has broken down the gates of bronze and
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  Speaker 2: cut through the bars of iron. Fools, in their rebellious ways,
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  Speaker 2: and through their iniquities, suffered affliction. They loathed all food
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  Speaker 2: and drew near to the gates of death. Then they
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  Speaker 2: cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he
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  Speaker 2: saved them from their distress. He sent forth his word
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  Speaker 2: and healed them. He rescued them from the pit. Let
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  Speaker 2: them give thanks to the Lord for his loving devotion
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  Speaker 2: and his wonders to the sons of men. Let them
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  Speaker 2: offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
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  Speaker 2: Others went out to sea in ships, conducting trade on
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  Speaker 2: the mighty waters. They saw the word works of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord and his wonders in the deep, for he spoke
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  Speaker 2: and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths.
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  Speaker 2: Their courage melted in their anguish. They reeled and staggered
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  Speaker 2: like drunkards, and all their skill was useless. Then they
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  Speaker 2: cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he
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  Speaker 2: brought them out of their distress. He calmed the storm
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  Speaker 2: to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
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  Speaker 2: They rejoiced in the silence, and he guided them to
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  Speaker 2: the harbor they desired. Let them give thanks to the
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  Speaker 2: Lord for his loving devotion and his wonders to the
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  Speaker 2: sons of men. Let them exalt him in the assembly
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  Speaker 2: of the people, and praise him in the council of
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  Speaker 2: the elders. He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water
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  Speaker 2: into thirsty ground, and fruitful land into fields of salt
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  Speaker 2: because of the wickedness of its dwellers. He turns a
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  Speaker 2: desert into pools of water, and a dry land into
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  Speaker 2: flowing springs. He causes the hungry to settle there is
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  Speaker 2: less than number hash zero. One hash is greater than
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  Speaker 2: that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
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  Speaker 2: They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
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  Speaker 2: He blesses them, and they multiply greatly. He does not
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  Speaker 2: let their herds diminish. When they are decreased and humbled
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  Speaker 2: by oppression, evil and sorrow. He pours out contempt on
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  Speaker 2: the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless waste land.
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  Speaker 2: But he lifts the needy from affliction and increases their
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  Speaker 2: families like flocks the upright sea, and rejoice, and all
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  Speaker 2: iniquity shuts its mouth. Let him who is wise pay
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  Speaker 2: heed to these things, and consider the loving devotion of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. I love you, o Lord, my strength. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My
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  Speaker 2: God is my roc in whom I take refuge, my shield,
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  Speaker 2: and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will
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  Speaker 2: call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
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  Speaker 2: So shall I be saved from my enemies. The cords
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  Speaker 2: of death encompassed me, The torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
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  Speaker 2: The cords of sheol entangled me. The snares of death
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  Speaker 2: confronted me. In my distress, I called upon the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I cried to my God for help. From his temple.
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  Speaker 2: He heard my voice, and my cry for his help
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  Speaker 2: reached his ears. Then the earth shook and quaked, and
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  Speaker 2: the foundations of the mountains trembled. They were shaken because
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  Speaker 2: he burned with anger. Smoke rose from his nostrils, and
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  Speaker 2: consuming fire came from his mouth. Glowing coals blazed forth.
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  Speaker 2: He parted the heavens and came down, with dark clouds
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  Speaker 2: beneath his feet. He mounted a cherub and flew. He
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  Speaker 2: soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness
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  Speaker 2: his hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around him.
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  Speaker 2: From the brightness of his presence, his clouds advanced hailstones
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  Speaker 2: and coals of fire. The Lord thundered from heaven. The
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  Speaker 2: voice of the most High resounded hailstones and coals of fire.
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  Speaker 2: He shot his arrows and scattered the foes. He hurled
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  Speaker 2: lightning and routed them. The channel of the sea appeared,
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  Speaker 2: and the foundations of the world were exposed. At your rebuke,
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  Speaker 2: o Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils,
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  Speaker 2: he reached down from on high and took hold of me.
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  Speaker 2: He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me
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  Speaker 2: from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
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  Speaker 2: They confronted me in my day of calamity. But the
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  Speaker 2: Lord was my support. He brought me out into the open.
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  Speaker 2: He rescued me because he delighted in me. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: has rewarded me according to my righteousness. He has repaid
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  Speaker 2: me according to the cleanness of my hands. For I
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  Speaker 2: have kept the ways of the Lord and have not
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  Speaker 2: wickedly departed from my God. For all his ordinances are
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  Speaker 2: before me. I have not disregarded his statutes. And I
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  Speaker 2: have been blameless before him and kept myself from iniquity.
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  Speaker 2: So the Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: according to the cleanness of my hands. In his sight,
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  Speaker 2: to the faithful, you show yourself faithful. To the blameless,
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  Speaker 2: you show yourself blameless. To the pure, you show yourself pure.
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  Speaker 2: But to the crooked, you show yourself shrewd. For you
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  Speaker 2: save an afflicted people, but you humble those with haughty eyes.
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  Speaker 2: For you, o Lord, light my lamp. My God lights
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  Speaker 2: up my darkness. For in you I can charge an army,
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  Speaker 2: and with my God I can scale a war. As
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  Speaker 2: for God, his way is perfect. The word of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is flawless. He is a shield to all who
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  Speaker 2: take refuge in him. For who is God besides the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and who is the rock except our God. It is
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  Speaker 2: God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
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  Speaker 2: He makes my feet like those of a deer, and
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  Speaker 2: stations me upon the heights. He trains my hands for battle.
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  Speaker 2: My arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have
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  Speaker 2: given me your shield of salvation. Your right hand upholds me,
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  Speaker 2: and your gentleness exalts me. You broaden the path beneath
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  Speaker 2: me so that my ankles do not give way. I
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  Speaker 2: pursued my enemies and overtook them. I did not turn
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  Speaker 2: back until they were consumed. I crushed them so they
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  Speaker 2: could not rise. They have fallen under my feet. You
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  Speaker 2: have armed me with strength for battle. You have subdued
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  Speaker 2: my foes beneath me. You have made my enemies retreat
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  Speaker 2: before me. I destroyed those who hated me. They cried
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  Speaker 2: for help, but there was no one to save them
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord, but he did not answer. I ground
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  Speaker 2: them as dust in the face of the wind. I
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  Speaker 2: trampled them like mud in the streets. You have delivered
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  Speaker 2: me from the strife of the people. You have made
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  Speaker 2: me the head of nations. A people I had not known.
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  Speaker 2: Shall serve me when they hear me they obey me.
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  Speaker 2: Foreigners cower before me, Foreigners lose heart and come trembling
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  Speaker 2: from their strongholds. The Lord lives and blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Be my rock.
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  Speaker 2: And may the God of my salvation be exalted, the
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  Speaker 2: God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me, who
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  Speaker 2: delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes.
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  Speaker 2: You rescue me from violent men. Therefore I will praise you,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, among the nations, I will sing praises to
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  Speaker 2: your name. Great salvation. He brings to his king. He
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  Speaker 2: shows loving devotion to his anointed, to David and his descendants,
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  Speaker 2: for ever, out of the depths, I cry to you,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears
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  Speaker 2: be attentive to my plea for mercy. If you, O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: kept track of iniquities, then who O Lord, could stand.
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  Speaker 2: But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may
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  Speaker 2: be feared. I wait for the Lord. My soul does wait,
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  Speaker 2: and in his word I put my hope. My soul
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  Speaker 2: waits for the Lord, more than watchman wait for the morning,
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  Speaker 2: more than watchman wait for the morning. O Israel, put
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  Speaker 2: your hope in the Lord. For with the Lord is
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  Speaker 2: loving devotion, and with him is redemption in abundance, and
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  Speaker 2: he will redeem Israel from all iniquity. When the Lord
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  Speaker 2: restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers. Then
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  Speaker 2: our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts
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  Speaker 2: of joy. Then it was said among the nations, the
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  Speaker 2: Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has
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  Speaker 2: done great things for us. We are filled with joy.
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  Speaker 2: Restore our captives, O, Lord. Like streams in the Negev,
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  Speaker 2: those who so in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
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  Speaker 2: He who goes out weeping bearing a trail of seed
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  Speaker 2: will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain. Hallelujah,
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  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the
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  Speaker 2: Lord all my life. I will sing praises to my
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  Speaker 2: God while I have my being. Put not your trust
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  Speaker 2: in princes. In mortal man, who cannot save. When his
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  Speaker 2: spirit departs, he returns to the ground on that very
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  Speaker 2: day his plans perish. Blessed is he whose help is
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  Speaker 2: the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: his God, the maker of heaven and earth, the sea,
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  Speaker 2: and everything in them. He remains faithful for ever. He
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  Speaker 2: executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord sets the prisoners free. The Lord opens the
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts those who are
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  Speaker 2: weighed down. The Lord loves the righteous. The Lord protects foreigners.
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  Speaker 2: He sustains the fatherless and the widow. But the ways
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  Speaker 2: of the wicked he frustrates. The Lord reigns for ever,
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  Speaker 2: your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah. I will
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  Speaker 2: exalt you, O Lord, for you have lifted me up
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  Speaker 2: and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, my God. I cried to you for help,
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  Speaker 2: and you healed me. O Lord, you pulled me up
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  Speaker 2: from she all. You spared me from descending into the pit.
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  Speaker 2: Sing to the Lord, O you his saints, and praise
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  Speaker 2: his holy name, for his anger is fleeting, but his
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  Speaker 2: favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but
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  Speaker 2: joy comes in the morning. In prosperity, I said, I
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  Speaker 2: will never be shaken. O Lord. You favored me. You
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  Speaker 2: made my mountain stand strong. When you hid your face.
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  Speaker 2: I was dismayed to you, O Lord. I called, and
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  Speaker 2: I begged my Lord for mercy what gain is there
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  Speaker 2: in my bloodshed, in my descent to the pit, Will
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  Speaker 2: the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness? Hear me,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord, and have mercy. O Lord, be my helper.
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  Speaker 2: You turned my mourning into dancing. You peeled off my
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  Speaker 2: sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may
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  Speaker 2: sing your praises and not be silent. O Lord, my God,
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  Speaker 2: I will give thanks for ever I cry aloud to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. I lift my voice to the Lord for mercy.
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  Speaker 2: I pour out my complaint before him. I reveal my
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  Speaker 2: trouble to him. Although my spirit grows faint within me.
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  Speaker 2: You know my way. Along the path I travel, they
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  Speaker 2: have hidden a snare for me. Look to my right
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  Speaker 2: and see no one attends to me. There is no
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  Speaker 2: refuge for me. No one cares for my soul. I
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  Speaker 2: cry to you, O Lord, you are my refuge, my
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  Speaker 2: portion in the land of the living. Listen to my cry,
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  Speaker 2: for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers,
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  Speaker 2: for they are too strong for me. Free my soul
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  Speaker 2: from prison, that I may praise your name. The righteous
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  Speaker 2: will gather around me because of your goodness to me.