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<> Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppresseth me.
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Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High.
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What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
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In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
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Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.
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Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
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When I cry [unto thee], then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know for God [is] for me.
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In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word.
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In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
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Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
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For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalm 57
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<> Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities be overpast.
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I will cry unto God most high unto God that performeth [all things] for me.
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He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
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My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
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They have prepared a net for my steps my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.
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My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
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Awake up, my glory awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
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I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
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For thy mercy [is] great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
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Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
Psalm 58
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<> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalm 59
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<> Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
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Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
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For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.
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They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold.
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Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
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They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
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Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?
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But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
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[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defence.
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The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
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Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
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[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.
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Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them], that they [may] not [be]: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
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And at evening let them return [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
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Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
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But I will sing of thy power yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defence, [and] the God of my mercy.
2 Corinthians 8
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia
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How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves
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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
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Therefore, as ye abound in every [thing, in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all diligence, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also.
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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
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And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
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Now therefore perform the doing [of it] that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of that which ye have.
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For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.
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For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:
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As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had nothing over and he that [had gathered] little had no lack.
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But thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
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For indeed he accepted the exhortation but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
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And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise [is] in the gospel throughout all the churches
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And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:
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Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
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Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
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And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which [I have] in you.
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Whether [any do enquire] of Titus, [he is] my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren [be enquired of, they are] the messengers of the churches, [and] the glory of Christ.
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Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
