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 <div class="label">73</div><div class="d">A Psalm of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1Truly God is good to Israel,</div><div class="q2"> Even to such as are of a clean heart.</div><div class="q1"> 2But as for me, my feet were almost gone;</div><div class="q2">My steps had well nigh slipped.</div><div class="q1"> 3For I was envious at the foolish,</div><div class="q2"> When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</div><div class="q1"> 4For there are no bands in their death:</div><div class="q2">But their strength is firm.</div><div class="q1"> 5They are not in trouble as other men;</div><div class="q2">Neither are they plagued like other men.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;</div><div class="q2">Violence covereth them as a garment.</div><div class="q1"> 7Their eyes stand out with fatness:</div><div class="q2">They have more than heart could wish.</div><div class="q1"> 8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:</div><div class="q2">They speak loftily.</div><div class="q1"> 9They set their mouth against the heavens,</div><div class="q2">And their tongue walketh through the earth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10Therefore his people return hither:</div><div class="q2">And waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11And they say, How doth God know?</div><div class="q2">And is there knowledge in the most High?</div><div class="q1"> 12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.</div><div class="q2"> 13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.</div><div class="q1"> 14For all the day long have I been plagued,</div><div class="q2">And chastened every morning.</div><div class="q1"> 15If I say, I will speak thus;</div><div class="q2">Behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16When I thought to know this,</div><div class="q2">It was too painful for me;</div><div class="q1"> 17Until I went into the sanctuary of God;</div><div class="q2"> Then understood I their end.</div><div class="q1"> 18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:</div><div class="q2">Thou castedst them down into destruction.</div><div class="q1"> 19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment!</div><div class="q2">They are utterly consumed with terrors.</div><div class="q1"> 20As a dream when one awaketh;</div><div class="q2"> So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21Thus my heart was grieved,</div><div class="q2">And I was pricked in my reins.</div><div class="q1"> 22So foolish was I, and ignorant:</div><div class="q2">I was as a beast before thee.</div><div class="q1"> 23Nevertheless I am continually with thee:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast holden me by my right hand.</div><div class="q1"> 24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,</div><div class="q2">And afterward receive me to glory.</div><div class="q1"> 25Whom have I in heaven but thee?</div><div class="q2">And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.</div><div class="q1"> 26My flesh and my heart faileth:</div><div class="q2"> But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.</div><div class="q1"> 27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.</div><div class="q1"> 28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD,</div><div class="q2">That I may declare all thy works.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">74</div><div class="d">Maschil of Asaph.</div><div class="q1"> 1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?</div><div class="q2"> Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?</div><div class="q1"> 2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;</div><div class="q2">The rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">This mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.</div><div class="q2"> 3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;</div><div class="q1"> Even all that the enemy</div><div class="q2">hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;</div><div class="q2">They set up their ensigns for signs.</div><div class="q1"> 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.</div><div class="q1"> 6But now they break down the carved work</div><div class="q2">Thereof at once with axes and hammers.</div><div class="q1"> 7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,</div><div class="q2">They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.</div><div class="q1"> 8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:</div><div class="q2">They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.</div><div class="q1"> 9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet:</div><div class="q2">Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?</div><div class="q2">Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?</div><div class="q1"> 11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?</div><div class="q2">Pluck it out of thy bosom.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 12For God is my King of old,</div><div class="q2">Working salvation in the midst of the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:</div><div class="q2">Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.</div><div class="q1"> 14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,</div><div class="q2"> And gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.</div><div class="q1"> 15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:</div><div class="q2">Thou driedst up mighty rivers.</div><div class="q1"> 16The day is thine, the night also is thine:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.</div><div class="q1"> 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:</div><div class="q2">Thou hast made summer and winter.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD,</div><div class="q2">And that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.</div><div class="q1"> 19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:</div><div class="q2">Forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.</div><div class="q1"> 20Have respect unto the covenant:</div><div class="q2">For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.</div><div class="q1"> 21O let not the oppressed return ashamed:</div><div class="q2">Let the poor and needy praise thy name.</div><div class="q1"> 22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:</div><div class="q2">Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.</div><div class="q1"> 23Forget not the voice of thine enemies:</div><div class="q2">The tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">11</div><div class="s2">David and Bath-sheba</div><div class="p"> 1And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.</div><div class="p"> 2And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. 5And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.</div><div class="p"> 6And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. 8And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. 9But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. 10And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? 11And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. 12And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. 13And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.</div><div class="p"> 14And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 16And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 17And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, 20and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 21Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.</div><div class="p"> 22So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. 24And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 25Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.</div><div class="p"> 26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.</div>
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 <div class="label">12</div><div class="p"> 1And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. 5And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: 6and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.</div><div class="p"> 7And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. 13And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 15And Nathan departed unto his house.</div><div class="p">And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? 19But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 20Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. 21Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. 22And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 23But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.</div><div class="p"> 24And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him. 25And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.</div><div class="p"> 26And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. 28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. 29And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. 30And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance. 31And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.</div>
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