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\c 25
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\q1
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\v 1 Yahweh, you are my God;
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\q2 I will honor you and praise you.
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\q1 You do wonderful things;
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\q2 you said long ago that you would do those things,
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\q2 and now you have done them as you said that you would.
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\q1
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\v 2 Sometimes you have caused cities to become heaps of rubble,
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\q2 cities that had strong walls around them.
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\q1 You have caused palaces in foreign countries to disappear;
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\q2 they will never be rebuilt.
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\q1
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\v 3 Therefore, people in powerful nations will declare that you are very great,
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\q2 and people in nations whose leaders show mercy to no one will revere you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 Yahweh, you are like a strong tower where poor people can find refuge,
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\q2 a place where needy people can go when they are distressed.
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\q1 You are like a place where people can find refuge in a storm
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\q2 and where they can stay in the shade, out of the hot sun.
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\q1 People oppress us and show us no mercy,
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\q2 they are like a storm beating against a wall,
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\q2
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\v 5 and like the very strong heat in the dry land.
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\q1 But you cause the noisy cries of people from foreign nations to be quiet.
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\q2 Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead,
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\q2 you stop merciless people from singing songs about how great they are.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 Here in Jerusalem Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will prepare a wonderful feast for all the people of the world.
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\q2 It will be a banquet with plenty of good meat and fine well-aged wine.
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\q1
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\v 7 People here are sad;
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\q2 they are so sad that it is like a dark cloud that hangs over them,
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\q2 like they experience when someone dies.
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\q1 But Yahweh will enable them to quit being sad.
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\q2
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\v 8 He will get rid of death forever!
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\q1 Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died.
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\q2 And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and us his people.
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\q1 That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it!
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\s5
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\p
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\v 9 At that time, people will proclaim,
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\q1 "Yahweh is our God!
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\q2 We trusted in him, and he has rescued us!
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\q1 Yahweh, in whom we trusted, has done it;
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\q2 we should rejoice because he has saved us!"
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\q1
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\v 10 Yahweh will protect and bless Jerusalem.
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\q2 But he will crush the people in the land of Moab;
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\q2 they will be like straw that is trampled in the manure and left to rot.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 11 Yahweh will push down the people of Moab;
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\q2 they will be like a swimmer who pushes down the water with his hands; they will push their hands through the dung but never get out of it.
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\q1 He will cause them to cease being proud,
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\q2 and he will show that all the things that they have done are worthless.
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\q1
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\v 12 He will cause armies to tear down the high walls around the cities of Moab;
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\q2 they will fall into pieces and lie in the dust.
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