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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, rebuke me not in thy wrath:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For thine arrows stick fast in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">And thy hand presseth me sore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There is</span></span><span class="content"> no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there any</span></span><span class="content"> rest in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds stink </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> are corrupt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">Because of my foolishness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">I go mourning all the day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For my loins are filled with a loathsome </span><span class="add"><span class="content">disease:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no soundness in my flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and sore broken:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Lord, all my desire </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> before thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">And my groaning is not hid from thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart panteth, my strength faileth me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">And my kinsmen stand afar off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They also that seek after my life lay snares </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for me:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I, as a deaf </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">, heard not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I was</span></span><span class="content"> as a dumb man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> openeth not his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thus I was as a man that heareth not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">And in whose mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> no reproofs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For in thee, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, do I hope:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Hear me</span></span><span class="content">, lest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">otherwise</span></span><span class="content"> they should rejoice over me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">When my foot slippeth, they magnify </span><span class="add"><span class="content">themselves</span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> ready to halt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">And my sorrow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> continually before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I will declare mine iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I will be sorry for my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But mine enemies </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> lively, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> they are strong:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They also that render evil for good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">Are mine adversaries; because I follow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the thing that</span></span><span class="content"> good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Forsake me not, O </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.38.21"><span class="content">O my God, be not far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Make haste to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">O Lord my salvation.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">39</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I said, I will take heed to my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">That I sin not with my tongue:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">I will keep my mouth with a bridle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">While the wicked is before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> from good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">And my sorrow was stirred.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> spake I with my tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> I may know how frail I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Behold, thou hast made my days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> an handbreadth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">And mine age </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as nothing before thee: Verily every man at his best state </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> altogether vanity. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: Surely they are disquieted in vain:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">He heapeth up </span><span class="add"><span class="content">riches</span></span><span class="content">, and knoweth not who shall gather them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And now, Lord, what wait I for?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">My hope </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Deliver me from all my transgressions:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">Make me not the reproach of the foolish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="content">Because thou didst </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Remove thy stroke away from me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">Surely every man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> vanity. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and give ear unto my cry;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">Hold not thy peace at my tears:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">For I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> a stranger with thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> a sojourner, as all my fathers </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">O spare me, that I may recover strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="content">Before I go hence, and be no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">40</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.40.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I waited patiently for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">And set my feet upon a rock, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> established my goings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he hath put a new song in my mouth, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">praise unto our God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">Many shall see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">, and fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">And shall trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> that man that maketh the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> his trust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Many, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Are</span></span><span class="content"> thy wonderful works </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast done,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">And thy thoughts </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which are</span></span><span class="content"> to us-ward:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I would declare and speak </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of them</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">They are more than can be numbered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">Mine ears hast thou opened:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then said I, Lo, I come:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="content">In the volume of the book </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> written of me, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I delight to do thy will, O my God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">Yea, thy law </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> within my heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, thou knowest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I have not concealed thy lovingkindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">And thy truth from the great congregation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For innumerable evils have compassed me about:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">They are more than the hairs of mine head:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">Therefore my heart faileth me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Be pleased, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, to deliver me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, make haste to help me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Let them be ashamed and confounded together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">That seek after my soul to destroy it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">Let them be driven backward</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">and put to shame that wish me evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">That say unto me, Aha, aha.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">Let such as love thy salvation say continually, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> be magnified.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> poor and needy; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> the Lord thinketh upon me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">41</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.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he that considereth the poor:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver him in time of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will preserve him, and keep him alive; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> he shall be blessed upon the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">And thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I said, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, be merciful unto me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Mine enemies speak evil of me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">When shall he die, and his name perish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And if he come to see </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">, he speaketh vanity:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">His heart gathereth iniquity to itself; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> he goeth abroad, he telleth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All that hate me whisper together against me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">Against me do they devise my hurt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">An evil disease, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">say they</span></span><span class="content">, cleaveth fast unto him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">now</span></span><span class="content"> that he lieth he shall rise up no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">Which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> heel against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But thou, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, be merciful unto me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">And raise me up, that I may requite them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">By this I know that thou favourest me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">And settest me before thy face for ever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="label">13</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"> God of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">From everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch42" data-usfm="PSA.42">
         <div class="label">42</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As the hart panteth after the water brooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">So panteth my soul after thee, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When shall I come and appear before God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My tears have been my meat day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">While they continually say unto me, Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy God?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I remember these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">, I pour out my soul in me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">With the voice of joy and praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">With a multitude that kept holyday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">why</span></span><span class="content"> art thou disquieted in me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Hope thou in God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him </span><span class="add"><span class="content">For</span></span><span class="content"> the help of his countenance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">O my God, my soul is cast down within me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">And in the night his song </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> with me, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> my prayer unto the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will say unto God my rock, why hast thou forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> with a sword in my bones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">Mine enemies reproach me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">While they say daily unto me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">Where </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy God?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">And why art thou disquieted within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Hope thou in God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">who is</span></span><span class="content"> the health of my countenance, and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch43" data-usfm="PSA.43">
         <div class="label">43</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">O send out thy light and thy truth: Let them lead me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why art thou cast down, O my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">And why art thou disquieted within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Hope in God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">For I shall yet praise him, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Who is</span></span><span class="content"> the health of my countenance, and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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