and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.
with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;
and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;
a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
A Psalm of David. O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. With my voice I cry out to the Lord; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;
A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.
He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!
to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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