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\c 26
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\p
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\v 1 Some day, people in Judah will sing this song:
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\q1 "Our city of Jerusalem is strong!
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\q2 Yahweh protects our city;
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\q2 He is like a wall that surrounds it.
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\q1
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\v 2 Open the gates of the city for people who are righteous;
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\q2 allow people who faithfully obey Yahweh to enter the city.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh, those who trust in you,
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\q2 those who are determined to never doubt you,
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\q2 you will enable them to be perfectly peaceful in their inner beings.
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\q1
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\v 4 So always trust in Yahweh,
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\q2 because he is forever like a huge rock on top of which we will be safe.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 He humbles proud people
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\q2 and destroys cities whose people are arrogant.
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\q1 He causes those cities to collapse into the dust.
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\q1
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\v 6 When that happens, poor and oppressed people will trample on the ruins.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 But for the righteous people,
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\q2 Yahweh, you do what is right;
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\q1 it is as though you smooth out the paths where they walk.
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\q1
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\v 8 Yahweh, by obeying your laws
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\q2 we show that we trust you to help us;
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\q1 and what we desire in our inner beings is that you will be honored.
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\q1
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\v 9 All during the nights I desire to know you better,
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\q2 and in the mornings I still want to be with you.
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\q1 When you come to judge and punish people who live on the earth
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\q2 they will learn to do what is right.
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\q1
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\v 10 But your acting kindly toward wicked people does not cause them to do what is good.
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\q1 Even in places where people do what is right, the wicked people continue to do what is evil,
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\q2 and they do not realize that you, Yahweh, are great.
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\q1
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\v 11 Yahweh, it is as though your fist was raised up ready to strike them,
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\q2 but they do not realize that.
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\q1 Show them that you are very eager to help your people.
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\q2 If your enemies would realize that, they would be ashamed;
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\q1 make your fire burn them up because they are your enemies.
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\q1
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\v 12 Yahweh, we desire that you will allow things to go well for us;
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\q2 all that we have done is what you have enabled us to do.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 13 Yahweh, our God, other masters have ruled over us,
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\q2 but you are the only one whom we honor.
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\q1
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\v 14 Those who ruled us are now gone; they are dead;
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\q2 their spirits have left this earth and they will never live again.
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\q1 You punished those rulers and got rid of them,
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\q2 and people do not even remember them anymore.
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\q1
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\v 15 Yahweh, you have enabled our nation to become great;
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\q2 we are more people now, and we have more land,
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\q1 so we thank you.
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\q1
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\v 16 Yahweh, when we were distressed, we asked you to help us;
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\q2 when you disciplined us, we could barely speak out any prayer to you.
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\q1
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\v 17 Like pregnant women who writhe and cry out
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\q2 when they are giving birth,
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\q2 we suffered very much, too.
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\q1
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\v 18 We were pregnant and had severe pain,
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\q2 but nothing good resulted from it.
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\q1 We have not rescued any people or kept their enemies from conquering them,
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\q2 and those in the world who were our enemies did not fall in battle.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 19 But Yahweh's people who have died will become alive again,
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\q2 their corpses will become alive!
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\q1 You whose bodies lie in graves, rise and shout joyfully!
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\q1 His light will be like dew that falls on you, his people who have died,
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\q2 you who are now in the place where the dead people are;
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\q2 he will cause you to live again.
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\q1
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\v 20 But now, my fellow Israelites, go home
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\q2 and lock your doors!
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\q1 Hide for a short time,
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\q2 until Yahweh is no longer angry.
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\q1
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\v 21 Listen to this: Yahweh will come from heaven
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\q2 to punish all the people on the earth for the sins that they have committed.
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\q1 People will be able to see the blood of those who have been murdered;
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\q2 everyone will at last know all the crimes of murder that have been committed."
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