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\c 144
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\d Written by David
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\b
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\q1
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\v 1 I praise Yahweh, who is like a huge rock on which I am safe!
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\q1 He trains my hands so that I can use them to fight battles;
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\q2 he trains my fingers so that I can shoot arrows in a war.
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\q1
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\v 2 He is the one who protects me as he promised;
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\q2 he is like a fortress in which I am safe,
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\q2 he protects me as shields protect soldiers,
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\q2 and he gives me refuge.
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\q1 He defeats other nations and then puts them under my power.
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh, we people are so insignificant! Why do you notice us?
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\q1 It is amazing to me that you pay attention to humans.
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\q1
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\v 4 The time that we live is as short as a puff of wind;
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\q2 our time to live disappears as a shadow does.
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh, tear open the sky and come down!
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\q2 Touch the mountains so that smoke may pour out from them!
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\q1
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\v 6 Cause lightning to flash with the result that your enemies will run away!
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\q2 Shoot your arrows at them and cause them to run away in panic.
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\q1
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\v 7 It is as though my enemies are like a flood around me;
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\q2 reach your hand down from heaven
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\q1 and rescue me from them.
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\q1 They are men from foreign countries
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\q1
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\v 8 who always tell lies.
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\q1 Even when they swear to tell the truth,
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\q2 they tell lies.
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\v 9 God, I will sing a new song to you,
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\q2 and I will play my ten-stringed harp while I sing to you.
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\q1
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\v 10 You enable kings to defeat their enemies;
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\q2 you rescue those who serve you as I did.
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\v 11 So I ask you to save me from being killed by the swords that those evil people carry.
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\q1 Rescue me from the power of those men from foreign countries
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\q2 who always tell lies.
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\q1 Even when they swear to tell the truth,
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\q2 they tell lies.
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\q1
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\v 12 I wish that our sons may all grow to full adulthood;
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\q1 I wish that our daughters may grow up to be as straight and tall
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\q2 as the pillars that stand in the corners of palaces.
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\q1
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\v 13 I wish that our barns may be full of many different crops.
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\q1 I wish that the sheep in our fields may give birth to tens of thousands of baby lambs.
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\q1
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\v 14 I wish that our cattle may give birth to many calves
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\q2 without having any miscarriages or deaths when they are born.
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\q1 I wish that there may not be any time when the people in our streets cry out in distress
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\q2 because foreign armies are invading.
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\q1
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\v 15 If good things like that happen to a nation,
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\q2 the people will be very fortunate.
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\q1 How fortunate are those who worship Yahweh as God!
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