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He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: