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 For your loving&#8209;kindness is greater than the heavens, * and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, * and your glory over all the earth.

So that those who are dear to you may be delivered, * save with your right hand and answer me.

God spoke from his holy place and said, * “I will exult and parcel out Shechem; I will divide the valley of Succoth.

Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; * Ephraim is my helmet and Judah my scepter.

Moab is my washbasin, on Edom I throw down my sandal to claim it, * and over Philistia will I shout in triumph.”

Who will lead me into the strong city? * who will bring me into Edom?

Have you not cast us off, O God? * you no longer go out, O God, with our armies.

Grant us your help against the enemy, * for vain is the help of man.

With God we will do valiant deeds, * and he shall tread our enemies under foot.

Hold not your tongue, O God of my praise; * for the mouth of the wicked, the mouth of the deceitful, is opened against me.