Psa 43:2 For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psa 43:3 O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.

Psa 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Psa 43:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

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Psa 44:1 O God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us The work that You did in their days, In the days of old.

Psa 44:2 You with Your own hand drove out the nations; Then You planted them; You afflicted the peoples, Then You spread them abroad.

Psa 44:3 For by their own sword they did not possess the land, And their own arm did not save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, For You favored them.

Psa 44:4 You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob.

Psa 44:5 Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

Psa 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

Psa 44:7 But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us.

Psa 44:8 In God we have boasted all day long, And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

Psa 44:9 Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.

Psa 44:10 You cause us to turn back from the adversary; And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

Psa 44:11 You give us as sheep to be eaten And have scattered us among the nations.

Psa 44:12 You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale.

Psa 44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

Psa 44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples.

Psa 44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

Psa 44:16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

Psa 44:17 All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You, And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Psa 44:18 Our heart has not turned back, And our steps have not deviated from Your way,

Psa 44:19 Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with the shadow of death.

Psa 44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god,

Psa 44:21 Would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

Psa 44:22 But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psa 44:23 Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever.

Psa 44:24 Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Psa 44:25 For our soul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.

Psa 44:26 Rise up, be our help, And redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.

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Psa 45:1 My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psa 45:2 You are fairer than the sons of men; Grace is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Psa 45:3 Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty!

Psa 45:4 And in Your majesty ride on victoriously, For the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; Let Your right hand teach You awesome things.

Psa 45:5 Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under You; Your arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.

Psa 45:6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

Psa 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

Psa 45:8 All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

Psa 45:9 Kings' daughters are among Your noble ladies; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

Psa 45:10 Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house;

Psa 45:11 Then the King will desire your beauty. Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

Psa 45:12 The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will seek your favor.

Psa 45:13 The King's daughter is all glorious within; Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

Psa 45:14 She will be led to the King in embroidered work; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.

Psa 45:15 They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing; They will enter into the King's palace.

Psa 45:16 In place of your fathers will be your sons; You shall make them princes in all the earth.

Psa 45:17 I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

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Psa 49:1 Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Psa 49:2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

Psa 49:3 My mouth will speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart will be understanding.

Psa 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp.

Psa 49:5 Why should I fear in days of adversity, When the iniquity of my foes surrounds me,

Psa 49:6 Even those who trust in their wealth And boast in the abundance of their riches?

Psa 49:7 No man can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him--

Psa 49:8 For the redemption of his soul is costly, And he should cease trying forever--

Psa 49:9 That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.

Psa 49:10 For he sees that even wise men die; The stupid and the senseless alike perish And leave their wealth to others.

Psa 49:11 Their inner thought is that their houses are forever And their dwelling places to all generations; They have called their lands after their own names.

Psa 49:12 But man in his pomp will not endure; He is like the beasts that perish.

Psa 49:13 This is the way of those who are foolish, And of those after them who approve their words. Selah.

Psa 49:14 As sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall rule over them in the morning, And their form shall be for Sheol to consume So that they have no habitation.

Psa 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.

Psa 49:16 Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich, When the glory of his house is increased;

Psa 49:17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; His glory will not descend after him.

Psa 49:18 Though while he lives he congratulates himself-- And though men praise you when you do well for yourself--

Psa 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light.

Psa 49:20 Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish.

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Psa 84:1 How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Lord of hosts!

Psa 84:2 My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Psa 84:3 The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, My King and my God.

Psa 84:4 How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah.

Psa 84:5 How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion!

Psa 84:6 Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings.

Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Psa 84:8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.

Psa 84:9 Behold our shield, O God, And look upon the face of Your anointed.

Psa 84:10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psa 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psa 84:12 O Lord of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in You!

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Psa 85:1 O Lord, You showed favor to Your land; You restored the captivity of Jacob.

Psa 85:2 You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah.

Psa 85:3 You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.

Psa 85:4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.

Psa 85:5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Psa 85:6 Will You not Yourself revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?

Psa 85:7 Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord, And grant us Your salvation.

Psa 85:8 I will hear what God the Lord will say; For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones; But let them not turn back to folly.

Psa 85:9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, That glory may dwell in our land.

Psa 85:10 Lovingkindness and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psa 85:11 Truth springs from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven.

Psa 85:12 Indeed, the Lord will give what is good, And our land will yield its produce.

Psa 85:13 Righteousness will go before Him And will make His footsteps into a way.

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Psa 87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Psa 87:2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

Psa 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

Psa 87:4 "I shall mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me; Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia: 'This one was born there.'"

Psa 87:5 But of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; And the Most High Himself will establish her.

Psa 87:6 The Lord will count when He registers the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

Psa 87:7 Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say, "All my springs of joy are in you."