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His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.

Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.

For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;