Psalm 104Psalm 105Psalm 106Romans 7.7-25Psalm 104
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Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great you are robed with honour and power.
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You are clothed with light as with a robe stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
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The arch of your house is based on the waters you make the clouds your carriage you go on the wings of the wind:
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He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.
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He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever
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Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains
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At the voice of your word they went in flight at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear
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The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
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You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
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You sent the springs into the valleys they are flowing between the hills.
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They give drink to every beast of the field the mountain asses come to them for water.
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The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.
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He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
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He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man so that bread may come out of the earth
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And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
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The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting
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Where the birds have their resting-places as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
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The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.
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He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year teaching the sun the time of its going down.
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When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
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The young lions go thundering after their food searching for their meat from God.
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The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
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Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
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O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all the earth is full of the things you have made.
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There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
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There go the ships there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
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All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.
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They take what you give them they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
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If your face is veiled, they are troubled when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
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If you send out your spirit, they are given life you make new the face of the earth.
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Let the glory of the Lord be for ever let the Lord have joy in his works:
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At whose look the earth is shaking at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.
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I will make songs to the Lord all my life I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
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Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
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Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.
Psalm 105
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O give praise to the Lord give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.
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Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.
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Have glory in his holy name let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
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Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength let your hearts ever be turned to him.
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Keep in mind the great works which he has done his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth
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O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
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He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
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He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations
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The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac
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And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement
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Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
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When they were still small in number, and strange in the land
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When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
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He would not let anyone do them wrong he even kept back kings because of them,
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Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
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And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
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He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:
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His feet were fixed in chains his neck was put in iron bands
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Till the time when his word came true he was tested by the word of the Lord.
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The king sent men to take off his chains even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.
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He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had
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To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.
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Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.
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And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
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Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
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He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, the man of his selection.
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He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.
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He sent black night and made it dark and they did not go against his word.
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At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.
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Their land was full of frogs, even in the rooms of the king.
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He gave the word, and there came the dog-fly, and insects over all the land.
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He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
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He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.
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At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,
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And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.
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He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.
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He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.
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Egypt was glad when they went for the fear of them had come down on them.
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A cloud was stretched over them for a cover and he sent fire to give light in the night.
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At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
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His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out they went down through the dry places like a river.
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For he kept in mind his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
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And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:
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And gave them the lands of the nations and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage
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So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
Psalm 106
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Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
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Who is able to give an account of the great acts of the Lord, or to make clear all his praise?
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Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
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Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people O let your salvation come to me
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So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
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We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
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Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
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But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power.
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By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.
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And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.
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And the waters went over their haters all of them came to an end.
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Then they had faith in his words they gave him songs of praise.
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But their memory of his works was short not waiting to be guided by him,
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They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
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And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.
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They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
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The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.
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And a fire was lighted among their tents the sinners were burned up by the flames.
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They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.
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And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.
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They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt
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Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.
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And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
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They were disgusted with the good land they had no belief in his word
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Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.
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So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:
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That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.
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And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
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So they made him angry by their behaviour and he sent disease on them.
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Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them and the disease went no farther.
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And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.
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They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them
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For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.
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They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said
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But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
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And they gave worship to images which were a danger to them:
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They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,
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And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan and the land was made unclean with blood.
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So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
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Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.
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And he gave them into the hands of the nations and they were ruled by their haters.
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By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.
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Again and again he made them free but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
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But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:
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And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
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He put pity into the hearts of those who made them prisoners.
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Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.
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Praise be to the Lord God of Israel for ever and for ever and let all the people say, So be it. Give praise to the Lord.
Romans 7
7-25
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What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
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But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
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And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death
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And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
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For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
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But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
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Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
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For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
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And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.
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But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
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So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
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For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
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For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
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But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
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So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.
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In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
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But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
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How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
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I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
