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¹ I WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works.² I will be glad and rejoice in thee and I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.³ When mine enemies are beaten back, they shall stumble and perish before thy presence.⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne, O thou righteous judge.⁵ Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles and thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.⁶ My enemies have been annihilated by the sword for ever; and thou hast destroyed the villages and their very memory hath perished.⁷ But the LORD shall endure for ever; he has prepared his throne for judgment.⁸ And he shall judge the world in righteousness and the people in uprightness.⁹ The LORD also will be a refuge for the poor, a refuge in times of trouble.¹⁰ And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O LORD.

¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; declare among the people his skillful doings;¹² For he has remembered to avenge their blood; he forgets not the cry of the poor.¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, and consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, O thou that removest me away from the gates of death,¹⁴ That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in thy salvation.¹⁵ The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made; and their foot is caught in the net which they hid.¹⁶ The LORD makes known the judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, and all the peoples that forsake God.¹⁸ For the poor shall not always be forgotten; and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.¹⁹ Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail; let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.²⁰ Appoint for them a lawgiver, that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.