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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.1.1"><span class="content">Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But his delight </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.1.2"><span class="content">And in his law doth he meditate day and night.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.1.3"><span class="content">That bringeth forth his fruit in his season;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.1.3"><span class="content">His leaf also shall not wither;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.1.3"><span class="content">And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The ungodly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not so:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.1.4"><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> like the chaff which the wind driveth away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.1.5"><span class="content">Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> knoweth the way of the righteous:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.1.6"><span class="content">But the way of the ungodly shall perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In thee, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, do I put my trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="content">Let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my rock and my fortress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="content">Therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="content">For thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Into thine hand I commit my spirit:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="content">Thou hast redeemed me, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> God of truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I have hated them that regard lying vanities:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="content">But I trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="content">For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="content">Thou hast set my feet in a large room.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Have mercy upon me, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, for I am in trouble:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="content">Mine eye is consumed with grief, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yea</span></span><span class="content">, my soul and my belly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For my life is spent with grief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">And my years with sighing:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">And my bones are consumed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.31.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">And a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.31.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="content">I am like a broken vessel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For I have heard the slander of many:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">Fear </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> on every side: while they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I trusted in thee, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="content">I said, Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My times </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> in thy hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="content">Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.31.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="content">Save me for thy mercies' sake.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let me not be ashamed, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">; for I have called upon thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">Let the wicked be ashamed, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> let them be silent in the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.31.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let the lying lips be put to silence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="content">Which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Oh</span></span><span class="content"> how great </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.31.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="content">For he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For I said in my haste,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">I am cut off from before thine eyes:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">My supplications when I cried unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.31.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">O love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, all ye his saints:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">For</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.31.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.31.24"><span class="content">All ye that hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">61</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician upon Neginah, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">A Psalm</span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear my cry, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">Attend unto my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">When my heart is overwhelmed:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">Lead me to the rock </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> is higher than I.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For thou hast been a shelter for me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> a strong tower from the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">I will trust in the covert of thy wings. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For thou, O God, hast heard my vows:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">Thou hast given </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> the heritage of those that fear thy name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Thou wilt prolong the king's life:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> his years as many generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He shall abide before God for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">O prepare mercy and truth, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> may preserve him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="content">That I may daily perform my vows.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">91</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> my refuge and my fortress:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">My God; in him will I trust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> from the noisome pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">His truth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be thy</span></span><span class="content"> shield and buckler.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Nor</span></span><span class="content"> for the arrow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> flieth by day;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Nor</span></span><span class="content"> for the pestilence </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> walketh in darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Nor</span></span><span class="content"> for the destruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> wasteth at noonday.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> it shall not come nigh thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">And see the reward of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because thou hast made the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which is</span></span><span class="content"> my refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> the most High, thy habitation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There shall no evil befall thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he shall give his angels charge over thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">To keep thee in all thy ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They shall bear thee up in </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">will be</span></span><span class="content"> with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life will I satisfy him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">And shew him 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         <div class="label">121</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Song of degrees.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="content">From whence cometh my help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.121.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My help </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="content">Which made heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.121.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="content">He that keepeth thee will not slumber.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.121.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Behold, he that keepeth Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="content">Shall neither slumber nor sleep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.121.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy keeper:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy shade upon thy right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.121.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sun shall not smite thee by day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="content">Nor the moon by night.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.121.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall preserve thee from all evil:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="content">He shall preserve thy soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.121.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.121.8"><span class="content">From this time forth, and even for evermore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To know wisdom and instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">To perceive the words of understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">To receive the instruction of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">Justice, and judgment, and equity;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To give subtilty to the simple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">To the young man knowledge and discretion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A wise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> will hear, and will increase learning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the beginning of knowledge:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> fools despise wisdom and instruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My son, hear the instruction of thy father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> an ornament of grace unto thy head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">And chains about thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My son, if sinners entice thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">Consent thou not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">And whole, as those that go down into the pit:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We shall find all precious substance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">We shall fill our houses with spoil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Cast in thy lot among us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">Let us all have one purse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My son, walk not thou in the way with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">Refrain thy foot from their path:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For their feet run to evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">And make haste to shed blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely in vain the net is spread</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">In the sight of any bird.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And they lay wait for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">They lurk privily for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> lives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Cry of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wisdom crieth without;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">She uttereth her voice in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">In the city she uttereth her words, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And the scorners delight in their scorning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And fools hate knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Turn you at my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">I will make known my words unto you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Because I have called, and ye refused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But ye have set at nought all my counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">And would none of my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I also will laugh at your calamity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">I will mock when your fear cometh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When your fear cometh as desolation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">When distress and anguish cometh upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For that they hated knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">And did not choose the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They would none of my counsel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">They despised all my reproof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">And be filled with their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="content">And shall be quiet from fear of evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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